Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta teaches writing for Harvard Extension School and Oxford Department for Continuing Education. She delivered the 2019 TEDx talk “Live Like a Poem” and is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, most recently the novel She Never Told Me About the Ocean. She co-edited the anthology of essays What Doesn’t Kill Her. Her short work has been published widely, most recently in the winter issue of The Poetry Review. Elisabeth lives with her sea swimmer husband and two young children. A forthcoming lifestyle book, Edit Your Life, is forthcoming from Tarcher Perigee, and a collection of essays, Awake with Asashoryu, is forthcoming from Paul Dry Books, both in 2022.