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.

Cobalt Review Zora Neale Hurston Fiction Writing Prize Finalist

Published on March 17, 2016.

I was selected as one of this year's Zora Neale Hurston Fiction Writing Prize finalists at Cobalt Review. You can read the full list of finalists 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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