Elizabeth Enslin

Creative Nonfiction Writer

OR
Oregon US
Website: 
www.elizabethenslin.com

Author's Bio

Elizabeth Enslin grew up in Seattle and went on to earn her PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University in 1990 and marry into a Brahman family in the plains of Nepal. Inspired by local women, especially her mother-in-law, she researched women’s organizing, poetics and politics and agro-ecology. She currently lives in a strawbale house in the canyon country of northeastern Oregon, where she raises garlic, pigs and yaks.

Publications & Prizes

Book:
While the Gods Were Sleeping: A Journey Through Love and Rebellion in Nepal (Seal Press, 2014)
Journals:
Crab Orchard Review
,
Fringe Magazine
,
Gettysburg Review
,
In Posse Review
,
In the Mist
,
Opium Magazine
,
Oregon Literary Review
,
Orion
,
The Raven Chronicles
,
The Truth About The Fact
Prizes won: 

Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholarship, Individual Artist Fellowship award from Oregon Arts Commission.
Finalist, John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize, Honorable Mention for Pushcart Prize 2010, Notable in Best American Essays 2010, Honorable Mention for Oregon Poetry Association New Poets Award.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Seattle
Raised in: 
Seattle, WA
Washington
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Last update: Mar 18, 2016