Elise Juska

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Elise Juska is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She is as a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. [1]

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Career and education

Juska is a graduate of Bowdoin College and the graduate writing program at the University of New Hampshire. [2] Her novels include The Blessings, released in 2014 by Grand Central Publishing, [3] which was selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Series, [4] the May 2014 LibraryReads list, [5] and Entertainment Weekly's "Must List." [6] The Philadelphia Inquirer named the novel one of the 10 Best Books of 2014, describing it as: "[A] bighearted novel... Juska's moving, multifaceted portrait of the Blessing family gleams like a jewel." [7]

Juska's novel If We Had Known was released by Grand Central Publishing in April 2018. [8] Inspired by the shooting at Virginia Tech, [9] the story is about an English professor who, after a shooting at her local mall, realizes that the gunman was her former student and wrote an essay for her class offering clues to his violent nature she might have missed. [10]

Juska's latest novel, Reunion, about three friends who return to their delayed 25th college reunion one year after the COVID-19 pandemic, will be published by HarperCollins in May 2024 and received early endorsements from New York Times bestselling authors Liz Moore and Mary Beth Keane. [11]

Her short stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, [12] The Gettysburg Review, [13] The Missouri Review, [14] The Millions, [15] Good Housekeeping, [16] The Hudson Review, [17] Prairie Schooner, [18] Harvard Review, [19] and numerous other publications.

Awards and honors

Juska was the 2013 winner of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction from Ploughshares [20] and her short stories have been honored by the Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series. [21] From the University of the Arts, she received the 2014 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. [22]

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  1. ↑ "Elise | University of the Arts". www.uarts.edu.
  2. ↑ "ejuska | University of the Arts". www.uarts.edu. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  3. ↑ The Blessings . Hachette Book Group. ISBN   978-1455574032 . Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "The Blessings". The Barnes & Noble Review. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "May 2014 LibraryReads List". LibraryReads. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "The Must List: The Top Ten Things We Love This Week". Entertainment Weekly. May 23, 2014.
  7. ↑ "A Phila. family's story, told in many voices". The Philadelphia Inquirer. May 4, 2014.
  8. ↑ "If We Had Known". Grand Central Publishing. 978-1455561773. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  9. ↑ "Gun novels to read when your nation is averaging one school shooting for every 60 hours". BookPage. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  10. ↑ "If We Had Known | Elise Juska | Grand Central Publishing". www.elisejuska.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  11. ↑ "Elise Juska" . Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  12. ↑ "Elise Juska | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  13. ↑ "Gettysburg Review - Store". www.gettysburgreview.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  14. ↑ "The Missouri Review » Elise Juska". www.missourireview.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  15. ↑ "The Keep Pile". The Millions. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  16. ↑ "Other People's Love Letters". No. February 2013. Good Housekeeping.
  17. ↑ "Elise Juska". The Hudson Review. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  18. ↑ "Spring 2016 Issue of Prairie Schooner Now Available! | Prairie Schooner". prairieschooner.unl.edu. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  19. ↑ "Elise R. Juska | Harvard Review Online". www.harvardreview.org. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  20. ↑ "Alice Hoffman Prize | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  21. ↑ "The Best American Series - Short Stories". www.hmhbooks.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
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