birth_place nationality birth_date period genre image article_title name occupation
london , england , united kingdom american and british 26 april 1975 contemporary literary fiction e_mitchell . jpg emily mitchell
 emily mitchell novelist
emily mitchell

emily mitchell is an anglo-american writer .
her debut novel , `` the last summer of the world '' , was published by w. w. norton & company in 2007 .
it concerns the photographer edward steichen in the context of world war i and was a finalist for the 2008 young lions award for fiction .
her writing has appeared in the indiana review , agni , the nation , and the utne reader .
she was educated at middlebury college as an undergraduate -lrb- class of 1997 -rrb- and lived for many years in new york city where she obtained her master of fine arts at brooklyn college -lrb- studying with michael cunningham -rrb- .
she resided in san francisco , california .
she is currently an assistant professor in the english dept. at the university of maryland .
