Emily Mitchell, associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, is the author of a collection of short stories, Viral, and a novel, The Last Summer of the World. Her fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Ploughshares, The Sun, and elsewhere; her nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, the New Statesman, and Guernica. She serves as fiction editor for the New England Review.Emily Mitchell's website: https://www.emilymitchellwriter.com

“These eerie fables of societies gone amok are almost too realistic to bear. Mitchell has written a fitting epitaph for our species: a darkly glittering gem of a book.” - Dan Chaon, author of One of Us “Mitchell’s prose is crystal clear—there’s no hiding the ball. It’s thoughtful, perceptive, vivid—and can steam up a mirror! This is excellent work, flawlessly executed.” - Michelle Latiolais, author of She and Widow“Mitchell is one of our most astute chroniclers of the way we live now. These diabolically inventive stories, often wickedly funny, vary thrillingly in tonal register and form. They ask all the big questions, including: Are we humans gone awry worth saving? Together, they whisper yes.” - Maud Casey, author of City of Incurable Women

• MothersLife/StoryForgotten Pastimes of the VictoriansHer Face I Cannot SeeThe Church of Divine ElectricityThe Woman Who Loved a TreeThe AssistantIn Which I Try to Save the World from Total Destruction Through the Power of ArtBecoming a CatAcknowledgments

Emily Mitchell, associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, is the author of a collection of short stories, Viral, and a novel, The Last Summer of the World. Her fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Ploughshares, The Sun, and elsewhere; her nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, the New Statesman, and Guernica. She serves as fiction editor for the New England Review.Emily Mitchell's website: https://www.emilymitchellwriter.com

“These eerie fables of societies gone amok are almost too realistic to bear. Mitchell has written a fitting epitaph for our species: a darkly glittering gem of a book.” - Dan Chaon, author of One of Us “Mitchell’s prose is crystal clear—there’s no hiding the ball. It’s thoughtful, perceptive, vivid—and can steam up a mirror! This is excellent work, flawlessly executed.” - Michelle Latiolais, author of She and Widow“Mitchell is one of our most astute chroniclers of the way we live now. These diabolically inventive stories, often wickedly funny, vary thrillingly in tonal register and form. They ask all the big questions, including: Are we humans gone awry worth saving? Together, they whisper yes.” - Maud Casey, author of City of Incurable Women

• MothersLife/StoryForgotten Pastimes of the VictoriansHer Face I Cannot SeeThe Church of Divine ElectricityThe Woman Who Loved a TreeThe AssistantIn Which I Try to Save the World from Total Destruction Through the Power of ArtBecoming a CatAcknowledgments