Emily Hunt Kivel

Emily Hunt Kivel was born in San Francisco, California. Her fiction has been published in The Paris Review, New England Review, Washington Square Review, and Volume 1 Brooklyn, among other places. She currently teaches writing at Columbia University.

The After Birth

By May 7, 2021
This whole idea, combined with the world “nuchal”—it made me hate Kay even more. I imagined her as this hunchbacked, creeping thing with a big bag of fluid on the back of her neck like a goiter.