Lisa Lanser Rose

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Author's Bio

Lisa Lanser Rose (aka. Elisabeth Rose) is a graduate of Penn State University's MFA program. She's the author of the memoir For the Love of a Dog (2001 Harmony Books) and the novel, Body Sharers (1993 Rutgers University Press), which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for Best First Novel. Publications and honors include winner of the 2016 The Briar Cliff Review Nonfiction Award, winner of the 2013 The Florida Review Editor’s Award, finalist for the 2014 Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, and a 2015 Best American Essay Notable Essay. She blogs with awesome women at TheGloriaSirens.com.

Literary agent: 
Birch Literary

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Book:
For the Love of a Dog (Harmony Books, 2001)
Journals:
Atticus Review
,
Briar Cliff Review
,
Florida Review

Fiction

Book:
Body Sharers (Rutgers University Press, 1993)
Prizes won: 

Honors include top-five finalist for the Penn/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel, winner of the 2016 The Briar Cliff Review Nonfiction Award, winner of the 2013 The Florida Review Editor’s Award, finalist for the 2014 Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, a Pushcart nomination, a 2015 Best American Essay Notable Essay.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania
Raised in: 
Toms River, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Jan 24, 2024