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Elizabeth's Latest Blogs
Mar.01.2012 - 10:36 am
An excerpt:
1985, we stole fistfuls of change, slipped fingers into jean pockets and cup holders, mined pennies from the asphalt. In school, the nuns lowered their papery eyelids...
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Jun.23.2011 - 9:32 am
They tell me I’m better on the Internet. Funnier on Facebook, more oomph than “IRL.” I’m not sure how to feel about this. I suppose my avatar is something of an improvement, a...
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Jun.02.2011 - 7:14 am
June fever burning
Can’t tell
the difference, under the skin, under the sun.
Stand there all day, skin red to white
like bird shit smeared down a metal screen.
June...
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May.08.2011 - 9:21 am
When I was 10, my mother took me out to the shed behind our house to ask me if she should divorce my father.
"I'm thinking of leaving him," she said. "But you need...
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Writing
Article:
The Longest Day of Her Life
Short Story:
Sour Milk
Article:
Field Notes on the Writing Process
Published Reviews
Jan.01.2010
Published by The Inkslinger
"Elizabeth Eslami’s debut novel is a culture clash from the get-go, but it’s a beautifully written clash filled with the most familiar kinds of yearning, both familial and...
The scene in the forest had become for me, without my knowing it, the foundation for the real story I am now trying to tell. The fragments, you see, had to be picked up slowly, long afterwards.”
—Sherwood Anderson, from "Death in the Woods"
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Eslami is the author of the acclaimed debut novel Bone Worship (Pegasus, 2010). Her essays, short stories, and travel writing have appeared in numerous publications, including The Millions, The Nervous Breakdown, Matador, and The Literary...
Connections
Causes Elizabeth Eslami Supports
Willamette Writers, The Association of Writers and Poets, The Association of Iranian American Writers
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