Alice Elliott Dark is the author of the novels Fellowship Point and Think of England, and two collections of short stories, In The Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. She is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Professor at Rutgers-Newark in the English department and the M.F.A. program.
Her work has appeared in, among others, The New Yorker, Harper's, DoubleTake, Ploughshares, A Public Space, Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O.Henry Awards, and has been translated into many languages. "In the Gloaming," a story, was chosen by John Updike for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of The Century and was made into films by HBO and Trinity Playhouse. Her non-fiction reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many anthologies.
She worked on Fellowship Point during her 2014 MacDowell residency. During her 2021 residency, she worked on her next novel, Anne After Laird, and a hybrid project. In 2025, Dark completed a novel with the working title of Wherever You Are, to be published by Scribner in 2026.
Portrait by James Leng
