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