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Presented By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Presentation and Q&A

Fiction Editor Halimah Marcus, Electronic Literature / Recommended Reading

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Halimah Marcus
This event is open to MFA students and Zell Fellows only.

Halimah Marcus is the Executive Director of Electric Literature, an innovative digital publisher based in Brooklyn, and the Editor-in-Chief of its weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, which she co-founded. Over the course of ten years, Marcus has transformed Electric Literature from a volunteer-run journal into a national literary platform with over three million readers. She is also the editor of Horse Girls, an anthology that reclaims and recasts the horse girl stereotype, forthcoming from Harper Perennial in 2021. She has edited writers such as A. M. Homes, Jane Smiley, Carmen Maria Machado, T Kira Madden, Helen DeWitt, Ben Marcus, James Hannaham, Laura Van Berg, Jim Shepard, Dan Chaon, Dina Nayeri, Sheila Heti, Steven Millhauser, Eduardo Halfon, J. Robert Lennon, Lynn Coady, Morgan Parker, Sarah Gerard, Emma Eisenberg, and Helen Phillips.

Her own work has appeared or is forthcoming in Amazon Original Stories, the Out There podcast, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, One Story, BOMB, The Literary Review, and The Southampton Review. Halimah has an MFA from Brooklyn College and lives in the Catskill region of New York.

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