Elyse Durham is the author of the forthcoming novel Maya & Natasha (Mariner, February 2025). A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, her fiction has or will soon appear in the Cimarron Review, the Cincinnati Review, Image, and elsewhere. She is an Elizabeth George grantee and has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Glen Arbor Arts Center, and the Mount, the home of Edith Wharton. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan with her husband, who is a Greek Orthodox priest.

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