Elizabeth Eslami's Biography
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New Haven, CT
Aug 2009
Elizabeth Eslami is the author of the forthcoming story collection, Hibernate, for which she was awarded the 2013 Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction, and the novel Bone Worship (Pegasus, 2010). Her essays, short stories, and travel writing have appeared most recently in The Rumpus, The Literary Review, Michigan Quarterly Review and The Sun, and her work is featured in the anthologies Tremors: New Fiction By Iranian American Writers and Writing Off Script: Writers on the Influence of Cinema. She currently teaches in the MFA Program at Manhattanville College. Visit her website at elizabetheslami.com
Upcoming Works
Hibernate: Stories
Forthcoming in 2014 from Ohio State University Press
Agents
Mollie Glick, Foundry Literary + Media
Recommended Links
Publishers
Pegasus Books, LLC
Ohio State University Press
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 forthcoming story collection, Hibernate, for which she was awarded the 2013 Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction, and the novel Bone Worship (Pegasus, 2010). Her essays, short stories, and travel writing have...
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Causes Elizabeth Eslami Supports
Willamette Writers, The Association of Writers and Poets, The Association of Iranian American Writers