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I’m grateful to have received a 2022 Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone, Birdman, The Wire) read a story I wrote at a special Selected Shorts event, curated by Josh Radnor, on February 23. The recording will be broadcast on Selected Shorts.

I wrote one of the sixteen essays in Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids,  edited by Meghan Daum, and forthcoming (March 31, 2015) from Picador. Of the collection, Publishers Weekly says, “Some entries are heart-wrenching—especially Elliott Holt’s ‘Just an Aunt’—while others are downright hilarious.”

Brooklyn Magazine’s “Map of the Best Book for Every State” includes You Are One of Them as the book that best represents Washington, D.C. 

Thanks, Time, for including me on a list with the amazing likes of Alice Munro, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Claire Messud, Rachel Kushner, and Zadie Smith. Esteemed company!

Mitzi Rapkin interviewed me for First Draft on Aspen Public Radio. It was a great conversation, even though I had a cold (you can hear how stuffed up I was!).

Flavorwire includes You Are One of Them on its list of the best debut novels of 2013.

You Are One of Them is one of the 7 finalists for the National Book Critics Circle’s first annual John Leonard Award for a first book.

The L.A. Review of Books review: “Elliott Holt’s fast, electrifying debut is as convincing and absorbing a portrait of post-Soviet Russia as you’ll read. But at its heart, it’s also about America. You Are One of Them is ultimately about the way the world picks us: to be the ones with boobs, or not; to… Read more »

I interviewed my friend Laura van den Berg for Fiction Writers Review.