Elizabeth Poliner is the author of the forthcoming novel, As Close to Us as Breathing (Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown), to be published March 2016, and the forthcoming poetry collection, What You Know in Your Hands (David Robert Books), to be published September 2015. She is also the author of a novel in stories, Mutual Life & Casualty and a poetry chapbook, Sudden Fog. In addition to the Kenyon Review, her short fiction has appeared in the Colorado Review, the Southampton Review, and the Laurel Review, among other journals. She teaches in the MFA program at Hollins University.
Fiction
Summer 2002
Unfinished Symphony
We were a bad orchestra. Even our repertoire spoke of diminished expectations: Beethoven’s First, Excerpts from Bizet’s Carmen, Schubert’s Unfinished. In the hands of a good orchestra I knew these […]