Emily Mitchell is the author of four works of fiction, most recently the novel Far Ocean, winner of the 2025 Big Moose Prize from Black Lawrence Press. Her fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Ploughshares, The Sun, The Missouri Review, American Short Fiction and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The New Statesman, and Guernica. She serves as fiction editor of New England Review and teaches at the University of Maryland.