Kelly Luce grew up in Brookfield, Illinois. After graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in cognitive science, she moved to Japan, where she lived and worked for three years. Her work has been recognized by fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Sozopol Fiction Seminars, Ragdale Foundation, the Kerouac Project, and Jentel Arts, and has appeared in the Chicago Tribune , Salon , O, the Oprah Magazine , Electric Literature , Crazyhorse , The Southern Review , and other publications. She received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin in 2015 and lives in Santa Cruz, CA. She is a Contributing Editor for Electric Literature and will be a fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies during the 2016-17 academic year. Her debut novel, Pull Me Under , is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.