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    Elisa Albert

    Elisa Albert is the author of After Birth, The Book of Dahlia, How This Night Is Dif­fer­ent, and edi­tor of the anthol­o­gy Freud’s Blind Spot. Her sto­ries and essays have appeared in Time, The Guardian, The New York Times, n+1, Ben­ning­ton Review, Tin House, Michi­gan Quar­ter­ly Review, The Lit­er­ary Review, the Los Ange­les Review of Books, and else­where. She lives in upstate New York. 

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    Elisa Albert
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    Five Sim­ple Ways To Be Good To A New Mom

    Ear­li­er this week, Elisa Albert shared what she’s been read­ing (and watch­ing) late­ly. Her new book, After Birth, is now avail­able. She has been blog­ging here all week for…
    Elisa Albert
    February 19, 2015
    Essay

    Into The Stew

    Elisa Albert is the author of the nov­els After Birth and The Book of Dahlia, the short sto­ry col­lec­tion How This Night is Dif­fer­ent, and edi­tor of the anthol­o­gy Freud’s…
    Elisa Albert
    February 17, 2015
    Interview

    Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist…Elisa Albert

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterOur third install­ment of ​“Words from our Finalists”…Elisa AlbertElisa…meet our Read­ersReaders…meet ElisaWhat are some of the most…
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    February 5, 2009

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