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Elizabeth Poliner is the author of the recently published novel, As Close to Us as Breathing (LeeBoudreaux Books / Little Brown), which is an Amazon “Best Books of 2016 So Far” forfiction/literature. She has also published a novel-in-stories, Mutual Life & Casualty, and apoetry collection, What You Know in Your Hands. Her stories and poems have appeared innumerous literary journals, including the Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Prairie Schooner,and Colorado Review. A recipient of seven individual artist grants from the D.C. Commissionon the Arts and Humanities, she has also received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony,Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. She teaches inthe MFA program at Hollins University.
Elizabeth Poliner is the author of the novel As Close to Us as Breathing, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in Fiction and was a finalist for the Library of Virginia’s People’s Choice Award in Fiction and the Ribalow Prize. She has also published a poetry collection, What You Know in Your Hands, and a novel-in-stories, Mutual Life & Casualty. Her stories have been published in The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Story, and Colorado Review, among other journals. She lives in Virginia.
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