Emily Ruskovich

Biography

Emily Ruskovich’s first novel, Idaho, is forthcoming in 2016 from Random House. Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, One Story, and Inkwell. A winner of a 2015 O. Henry Award and a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she now teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado in Denver.

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FICTION / Fall 2014

What Liesel Thinks of Horses

By Emily Ruskovich

Liesel has no time for questions, especially her own. She is sitting on the floor in her room, holding on her lap a heavy wooden box.