Elise Juska is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her latest novel, Reunion, was released in 2024 by HarperCollins and named a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her previous novels include If We Had Known and The Blessings, a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers selection and one of the Philadelphia Inquirer’s best books of the year.

Elise’s short fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature, LitHub, Ploughshares, and many other publications. She is the recipient of Ploughshares’ Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, and her stories have been cited as distinguished by the Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies. 

A graduate of Bowdoin College and the University of New Hampshire, Elise has taught fiction writing at several places including Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, The New School, and the University of the Arts, where she was the founding director of the creative writing program and received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Elise grew up outside Philadelphia, where she began typing stories at age five and now resides with her husband and son.