Emily Hunt Kivel’s fiction, interviews, translation, and criticism appear in Midnight Breakfast, Cinema Thread, The Los Angeles Review of Books, World Literature Today, The Nervous Breakdown, and others. She is the author of the chapbook poetry collection “John Travolta Considers His Odds” (Whitehorse & Slaughter). In 2017, her stories were dramatized and performed in the New Short Fiction Series in Hollywood. She is currently an MFA candidate in Fiction and Literary Translation at Columbia University, where she also teaches undergraduate writing as a UWP Fellow. In 2018, she was awarded a De Alba Fellowship for writing. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Matt and a Texan cat named Scout.