Discipline: Literature – fiction

Elizabeth Evans

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Tucson, AZ
MacDowell Fellowships: 1983, 1984, 1996, 2001

Elizabeth Evans is the author of six books of fiction: the novels As Good As Dead (Bloomsbury), Rowing in Eden (HarperCollins), Carter Clay (HarperCollins), and The Blue Hour (Algonquin); and the short story collections Suicide’s Girlfriend (HarperCollins) and Locomotion (New Rivers). Evans was born, raised, and educated in Iowa. She attended Cornell College and the University of Iowa, where she received a M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Evans' distinctions include the Iowa Author Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the James Michener Fellowship, and a Lila Wallace Award. She has been a fellow at MacDowell, Yaddo, the International Retreat for Writers at Hawthornden Castle, Wurlitzer, and other foundations. Evans is professor emeritus for the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona, and frequently teaches for Queens University of Charlotte's Low-residence M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing.

Studios

Banks

Elizabeth Evans worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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