Elizabeth Switaj

Fiction Writer, Poet

Belfast
United Kingdom
GB
Email: 
ekswitaj@gmail.com
Website: 
www.elizabethkateswitaj.net/

Author's Bio

Elizabeth Kate Switaj holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the Evergreen State College and an MFA in Poetics & Creative Writing from New College of California. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of English at Queen's University Belfast.

She is also the Assistant Managing Editor of Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and a Contributing Editor to Poets' Quarterly.

She has lived and taught English in both China and Japan.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Anthology:
Ruins: Extraterrestrial (Hadley Rille Books, 2007)
Journals:
BLIP
,
Cliterature
,
Colored Chalk
,
Kenyon Review Online
,
Platte Valley Review
,
The Lorelei Signal

Poetry

Anthologies:
In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Vol. 7 (MW Enterprises, 2007)
,
The Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, 2007)
Book:
Magdalene & the Mermaids (Paper Kite Press, 2009)
Chapbook:
The Broken Sanctuary: Nature Poems (Ypolita Press, 2007)
Journals:
Ante
,
AntiMuse
,
apt: an online literary journal
,
Aquila Review
,
Ascent Aspirations
,
Big Bridge
,
Black Market Review
,
Blue Fifth Review
,
California Quarterly
,
Cella's Round Trip
,
Clockwise Cat
,
Commonline Project
,
Convergence
,
Cordite Poetry Review
,
Counterexample Poetics
,
Crannog
,
Diagram
,
Eleventh Transmission
,
Eoagh
,
Eratio Poetry Journal
,
Existere
,
Exquisite Corpse
,
Folio
,
Galatea Resurrects (A Poetry Engagement)
,
Gloom Cupboard
,
GutCult
,
Hamilton Stone Review
,
Hawai'i Pacific Review
,
Hazmat Review
,
Hinge
,
Horse Less Review
,
listenlight
,
Lowestoft Chronicle
,
Marginalia
,
Offcourse Literary Journal
,
Ophelia Street
,
Origami Condom
,
Otoliths
,
Ottawa Arts Review
,
Perigee
,
philament
,
Pirene's Fountain
,
Poets for Living Waters
,
Qarrtsiluni
,
Sous Rature
,
Sparkbright
,
Spot Lit(erary) Mag(azine)
,
The Argotist Online
,
The Blind Man's Rainbow
,
The Other Voices International Project
,
The Smoking Poet
,
The Stray Branch
,
The Subway Chronicles
,
tinfoildresses
,
Unlikely 2.0
,
Venereal Kittens
,
Welter
,
wheelhouse magazine
,
Whimperbang
,
Winamop
,
Wire Sandwich
,
YB

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Seattle
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Last update: May 30, 2012