Elliott Holt's short fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Guernica, and Bellevue Literary Review. She won a 2011 Pushcart Prize and was the runner-up for the 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award. A graduate of the MFA program at Brooklyn College, where she won the Himan Brown Award, Holt has received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop, and Yaddo. She is a former contributing editor at One Story magazine and a former copywriter, having worked at advertising agencies in Moscow, London, and New York. She currently resides in her hometown of Washington, DC.
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Sarah Zuckerman and Jennifer Jones are best friends in an upscale part of Washington, DC, in the politically charged 1980s. Sarah is the shy, wary product of an unhappy home: her father abandoned the family to return to his native England; her agoraphobic... SEE MORE