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Elle Nash (born March 11) is a British-American editor and author best known for her debut novella Animals Eat Each Other . Nash has stressed the importance of focusing her work on working-class characters and narratives and has criticized mainstream literature for ignoring those narratives. [1]
Nash's debut novella Animals Eat Each Other was published in 2018 by Dzanc Books. In 2021 she released a short story collection, Nudes, through Hobart Pulp. [2] A novella is forthcoming from Clash Books in spring 2022, titled Gag Reflex, which will be published in the form of a LiveJournal. Deliver Me, her second novel, will be published by Unnamed Press in 2023.
Nash also works as an editor, and is co-founder of the literary magazine Witch Craft Magazine. [3]
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