New England Review congratulates Celeste Mohammed on being chosen for a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. “Six Months,” Mohammed’s fiction debut, originally appeared in NER 38.1.

Mohammed is a lawyer, emerging writer, and mother of a two-year-old. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University and lives on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. She was also  a recent finalist for the New England Review Award for Emerging Writers.

Order NER 38.1 and read “Six Months,” or pre-order the anthology, and get 25% off with code DEBUTSTORIES at http://bit.ly/bestdebut2018.

Congratulations to all the emerging writers in the 2018 anthology.