Elizabeth Earley

Elizabeth Earley has an MFA in Fiction from Antioch University Los Angeles. Her stories and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The First Line Magazine, Fugue, Hair Trigger, and Glimmer Train among other publications. She was the recipient of the David Friedman Memorial Prize for Fiction, was twice a finalist for the AWP New Journals Award, received two pushcart nominations, and was a finalist for the 2011 Bakeless Literary Prize for Fiction. Her debut novel, A Map of Everything, was a debut fiction finalist for the Lambda Literary Prize. Her second novel, Like Wings, Your Hands, published by Red Hen Press, won the Women’s Prose Prize judged by Aimee Bender, the American Fiction Prize for best LGBTQ novel, and was a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction by the Publishing Triangle (alongside Ocean Vuong and Jacqueline Woodson), as well as a Foreword INDIES Finalist. She is also the president of the nonprofit, feminist press, Jaded Ibis Press, committed to publishing socially engaged literature.