Kelly Luce Explained

Kelly Luce is an American fiction writer and editor. She is the author of the short story collection Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail and the novel Pull Me Under.[1] In 2016 she was named a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.[2] She has contributed writing to New York Magazine,[3] The Sun,[4] The Southern Review,[5] and The Chicago Tribune,[6] and the New England Review.[7]

Luce's story collection, Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail, was awarded Foreword Review's Editor's Choice Prize for Fiction[8] as well as the IPBA Ben Franklin Award for Best First Book.[9] It was published by A Strange Object and released in the US in 2013.[10] A Chinese translation was published in 2021.[11] A short film by Kevin Berlandi, "Hana Sasaki's Tail," adapted from the collection, premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2016.[12]

Luce's debut novel, Pull Me Under, was a Book of the Month Club selection[13] and one of Elle magazine's Best Books of the year.[14] The New York Times said the novel "wastes no time grabbing our attention,"[15] The Chicago Tribune called it "a splendid long hike,"[16] and O, the Oprah Magazine said "it will bewitch you."[17] NPR named it a favorite book of the year and "a suspense novel with a female protagonist that gets more right about women than so many others I've read."[18] It was published by in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on November 1, 2016,[19] and was released in the UK in 2017,[20] with translated editions in Japan, Poland, and Italy.[21]

Biography

Luce was born in Brookfield, Illinois. She studied Cognitive Science at Northwestern University,[1] after which she moved to Kawasaki, Japan, followed by Tokushima, Japan. During her time in Japan she spent a week in jail under a false accusation of shoplifting.[3] She received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in 2015. In addition to her writing, she works as a literary magazine editor with Electric Literature.[22] She currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.[1]

Awards and honors

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kelly Luce | About the Author.
  2. Web site: Kelly Luce. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
  3. Web site: Truth, Lies, and Videotape at the Kawasaki Kmart. Kelly. Luce. The Vindicated. 18 November 2016 .
  4. Web site: The Sun Magazine | Stop Hitting Yourself | By Kelly Luce | Issue 501. The Sun Magazine.
  5. Web site: The Southern Review : Contributors: Kelly Luce. thesouthernreview.org.
  6. Book: Short Stories from Printers Row, Volume One. Chicago Tribune. August 27, 2013. Agate Publishing. 9781572844629 . Google Books.
  7. Web site: Ume | By Kelly Luce. July 31, 2013. New England Review.
  8. Web site: 2013 Foreword INDIES Winners. www.forewordreviews.com.
  9. Web site: BEA 2014: IBPA Reveals 2014 Benjamin Franklin Winners. Clare. Swanson . PublishersWeekly.com.
  10. Book: Luce, Kelly . Three scenarios in which Hana Sasaki grows a tail : stories . 2013 . 978-0-9892759-1-0 . Austin, Texas . 860995968.
  11. Web site: Mazzone . Devon . Hoover . Amber . FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS GUIDE .
  12. Web site: Cannes Interview: Kevin Berlandi talks HANA SASAKI'S TAIL. November 17, 2016. www.diginmag.com.
  13. Web site: Pull Me Under by Kelly Luce | Book of the Month. www.bookofthemonth.com.
  14. Web site: The 33 Best Books of 2016. December 7, 2016. ELLE.
  15. News: Books by Clare Beams, Hans Herbert Grimm, April Ayers Lawson and Kelly Luce (Published 2016) . The New York Times . 30 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230226100206/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/books/books-by-clare-beams-hans-herbert-grimm-april-ayers-lawson-and-kelly-luce.html . 2023-02-26 . live . Williams . John .
  16. Web site: Kelly Luce's 'Pull Me Under' tells of the darkness inside . . 31 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230203204259/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-books-pull-me-under-kelly-luce-20161031-story.html . 2023-02-03 . live .
  17. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250141248/pullmeunder
  18. Web site: Coming To Terms With A Bloody Past In 'Pull Me Under' . . https://web.archive.org/web/20230226134306/https://www.npr.org/2016/11/02/499654963/coming-to-terms-with-a-bloody-past-in-pull-me-under . 2023-02-26 . live .
  19. Book: Luce, Kelly . Pull Me Under: A Novel . November 2016 . Macmillan . 978-0374238582 .
  20. Book: Luce, Kelly . Pull Me Under . 2017 . Daunt Books . 978-1-911547-06-8 . 980367786.
  21. Book: Za toba: Luce, Kelly: 9788328046283: Books. .
  22. Web site: Masthead. Electric Literature.
  23. Web site: Kelly Luce Named 2023 Wachtmeister Award Winner. January 24, 2023.
  24. Web site: FY23 Independent Artist Fellowship in Literature Winners. Jason. Goldston. August 11, 2022. Tennessee Arts Commission.
  25. Yaddo Annual Report 2019 . 2019.
  26. Web site: Kelly Luce - Artist. MacDowell.
  27. Web site: Authors Wright, Magnuson to be honored at Illumine Awards. Charles. Ealy. Austin American-Statesman.
  28. Web site: Ucross Foundation - Literature Alumni. UCROSS.
  29. Web site: Books – Michener Center for Writers.

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