Kelly Luce

Kelly Luce is an American fiction writer. 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]