Emily Hunt Kivel was born in San Francisco and raised in Petaluma, California, a historic town famous for murderers and egg production and the arm wrestling capital of the world. She is the author of the novel DWELLING, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Her short fiction appears or is forthcoming in the Paris Review, BOMB, American Short Fiction, New England Review, Washington Square Review, Guernica, Volume I Brooklyn, the Southwest Review, the Nervous Breakdown, and the inaugural issue of Fieldnotes, among others. Her 2023 story “The Sea Captain” in American Short Fiction was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. She has taught creative writing and composition at St. Edward’s University and Columbia University, where she was awarded the De Alba Fellowship in Fiction. She currently serves as the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Scholar in Residence at the University of Houston.