Emily Kiernan

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Great Divide

Great Divide is a novel about memory, the power of the past to shape and subsume the present, and the pressing, terrible need to escape the drowning force of history.

Emily Awarded American Short(er) Fiction Prize

Published on May 19, 2016.

The fabulous Amelia Gray selected me as one of the prize winners in this year's American Short(er) Fiction Prize. You can read about the piece and the other winners here.

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"A Fable" published in Monkeybicycle

"One day my grandfather was out driving. This was after the war, after my grandparents were married and living in Pennsylvania with my aunt Sarah, before my father was born. As he was driving, he became sure that he had hit something back along the road behind him, so he turned around to check."

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About the Author

Emily Kiernan is the author of a novel, Great Divide (Unsolicited Press), and many short fictions. She is a prose editor at Noemi Press and a fiction editor at Rivet Journal. She resides in Pittsburgh with her man and her dog.

Contact

emily.allison.kiernan@gmail.com

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