Elise Winn’s stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Hobart, The Indiana Review and The Iowa Review. She is the recipient of the 2013 Iowa Review Award in Fiction and a 2014 residency at Hedgebrook. She was raised in Missouri and now lives in Northern California, where she is at work on a story collection and a novel.
‘The year I turned seventeen, the cicada chorus was deafening, as if they were impatient for the real beginning of summer and didn’t realize they were it.’
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