Eliz­a­beth Edel­glass is a fic­tion writer, book review­er, and for­mer Juda­ic librar­i­an who finds her­self writ­ing poet­ry in response to today’s world — per­son­al, nation­al, and glob­al. Her first pub­lished poems have appeared or are forth­com­ing in Com­pressed, Glob­al Poemic, Trou­vaille Review, and Sylvia. Her fic­tion has won the Reynolds Price Fic­tion Prize, The William Saroy­an Cen­ten­ni­al Prize, the Lilith short sto­ry con­test, and the Lawrence Foun­da­tion Prize from Michi­gan Quar­ter­ly Review.