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Elizabeth McKenzie

Elizabeth McKenzie

Biography Elizabeth McKenzie worked as the assistant fiction editor at The Atlantic Monthly before receiving her MA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford. Her story collection Stop That Girl was published by Random House in 2005 and was short-listed for The Story Prize, and was a Newsday and Library Journal Best Book of the year. Her novel MacGregor Tells the World was published by Random House in 2007 and was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the year, a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book, and a Library Journal Top Ten Book of the year. She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, and her short fiction has been included in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Threepenny Review, and many other literary journals. Currently Editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review and a Lecturer at Kresge College at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts/Japan-US Friendship Commission Creative Artist Fellowship for 2010.

 

Causes I Support

  • Litquake, International Red Cross, SPCA

University Affiliation

  • UC Santa Cruz

Publishers

  • Random House

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