Kelly Luce is an American fiction writer and editor. She is the author of the short story collection Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail and the novel Pull Me Under. [1] In 2016 she was named a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. [2] She has contributed writing to New York Magazine, [3]The Sun, [4] The Southern Review, [5] and The Chicago Tribune, [6] and the New England Review. [7]
Luce's story collection, Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail, was awarded Foreword Review's Editor's Choice Prize for Fiction [8] as well as the IPBA Ben Franklin Award for Best First Book. [9] It was published by A Strange Object and released in the US in 2013. [10] A Chinese translation was published in 2021. [11] A short film by Kevin Berlandi, "Hana Sasaki's Tail," adapted from the collection, premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2016. [12]
Luce's debut novel, Pull Me Under, was a Book of the Month Club selection [13] and one of Elle magazine's Best Books of the year. [14] The New York Times said the novel "wastes no time grabbing our attention," [15] The Chicago Tribune called it "a splendid long hike," [16] and O, the Oprah Magazine said "it will bewitch you." [17] NPR named it a favorite book of the year and "a suspense novel with a female protagonist that gets more right about women than so many others I've read." [18] It was published by in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on November 1, 2016, [19] and was released in the UK in 2017, [20] with translated editions in Japan, Poland, and Italy. [21]
Luce was born in Brookfield, Illinois. She studied Cognitive Science at Northwestern University, [1] after which she moved to Kawasaki, Japan, followed by Tokushima, Japan. During her time in Japan she spent a week in jail under a false accusation of shoplifting. [3] She received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in 2015. In addition to her writing, she works as a literary magazine editor with Electric Literature. [22] She currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. [1]
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Kelly Luce is an American fiction writer and editor. She is the author of the short story collection Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail and the novel Pull Me Under. [1] In 2016 she was named a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. [2] She has contributed writing to New York Magazine, [3]The Sun, [4] The Southern Review, [5] and The Chicago Tribune, [6] and the New England Review. [7]
Luce's story collection, Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail, was awarded Foreword Review's Editor's Choice Prize for Fiction [8] as well as the IPBA Ben Franklin Award for Best First Book. [9] It was published by A Strange Object and released in the US in 2013. [10] A Chinese translation was published in 2021. [11] A short film by Kevin Berlandi, "Hana Sasaki's Tail," adapted from the collection, premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2016. [12]
Luce's debut novel, Pull Me Under, was a Book of the Month Club selection [13] and one of Elle magazine's Best Books of the year. [14] The New York Times said the novel "wastes no time grabbing our attention," [15] The Chicago Tribune called it "a splendid long hike," [16] and O, the Oprah Magazine said "it will bewitch you." [17] NPR named it a favorite book of the year and "a suspense novel with a female protagonist that gets more right about women than so many others I've read." [18] It was published by in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on November 1, 2016, [19] and was released in the UK in 2017, [20] with translated editions in Japan, Poland, and Italy. [21]
Luce was born in Brookfield, Illinois. She studied Cognitive Science at Northwestern University, [1] after which she moved to Kawasaki, Japan, followed by Tokushima, Japan. During her time in Japan she spent a week in jail under a false accusation of shoplifting. [3] She received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in 2015. In addition to her writing, she works as a literary magazine editor with Electric Literature. [22] She currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. [1]
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