Emily Hunt Kivel was born in San Francisco. Her short fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, New England Review, BOMB, and American Short Fiction, among others. Her 2023 short story “The Sea Captain” in American Short Fiction was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. Her debut novel, DWELLING, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2025 and has been praised by the New York Times as “beautifully radical…the most fun I’ve had reading in years” and as “a story about millennial angst that is also a bewitching fable” by the LA Times. Emily lectures on writing and literature in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies and lives on the coast with her husband and baby daughter.
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