Elizabeth Graver

Elizabeth Graver is at work on a project titled Plants and Their Children, a series of linked novellas set in a summer community on Buzzard’s Bay from 1942 to 2000. She is the author of three novels: Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her short story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories (1991, 2001); Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards (1994, 1996, 2001); The Pushcart Prize Anthology (2001), and Best American Essays (1998). Her story “The Mourning Door” was awarded the Cohen Prize from Ploughshares Magazine. The mother of two daughters, she teaches English and Creative Writing at Boston College.

News

Elizabeth answers “Stray Questions” @ “Paper Cuts”: The New York Times Book Review Blog

: 11/28/08

Elizabeth’s essay “And Then She Drowned” appeared in The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Contemporary Writers on Forerunners in Fiction, eds J. Kolosov, K. Sundberg Lundstrum (Lewis-Clark Press, 2008).

Elizabeth’s comments about writing fiction appeared in Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Middles, Endings, and Everything in Between, ed. Carole Burns (Norton, 2008).

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