Emma Copley Eisenberg

Biography

Emma Copley Eisenberg’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, AGNI, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature Recommended Reading, the New Republic, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Elizabeth George Foundation, Lambda Literary, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Her first book, The Third Rainbow Girl, is forthcoming (Hachette, 2019). 

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FICTION / Spring 2018

Fat Swim

By Emma Copley Eisenberg ,  Illustration by Lauren Nassef

Alice spots the fat women through the second-story kitchen window. It’s Wednesday, so Dad is out at his feelings meeting. She has just turned eight and has been dragging her drumsticks over different household surfaces to see what sounds...