Elliott Holt

Biography

Elliott Holt is the author of the novel You Are One of Them (Penguin, 2013), a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her writing has been awarded a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Slate, and Time.

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FICTION / Summer 2018

Geometry

By Elliott Holt ,  Illustration by Anna Schuleit Haber

Although they are now in their forties and no longer live in the same house, Helen and Phoebe are still referred to as “the Campbell sisters.” This makes them feel less like people than a brand.
FICTION / Fall 2016

Amsterdam

By Elliott Holt ,  Illustration by Chloe Scheffe

In Amsterdam I lived with a man who was always sad. His younger brother had died in a car crash when my lover was sixteen. Though it had been thirteen years since the accident, he carried the loss as if it were an heirloom. He had brought...
FICTION / Fall 2015

Your Father Would Be Proud

By Elliott Holt ,  Illustration by Gosia Herba

His father’s apartment, with its floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, Oriental rugs, and views of Central Park, filled Helen with longing. She had always imagined herself in New York. She had always wanted a claim to that city’s streets. 
CRITICISM / Spring 2014

The Loudly Ticking Clock

By Elliott Holt