
Elizabeth Gonzalez James is the author of the novel “Mona at Sea” and the chapbook “Five Conversations About Peter Sellers.” Her stories and essays have appeared in The Idaho Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Rumpus, storySouth, PANK and elsewhere, and they have received numerous Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net nominations. Her new novel, “The Bullet Swallower,” is featured at the 2024 National Book Festival.