Discipline: Literature – fiction

Elizabeth Graver

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Boston, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994, 2009, 2012

Elizabeth Graver’s fifth novel, Kantika, inspired by the migration journey of her Sephardic Turkish grandmother, is forthcoming from Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt in Winter 2023. Her fourth novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her other novels are Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories (1991, 2001); Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards (1994, 1996, 2001), The Pushcart Prize Anthology (2001), and Best American Essays (1998). She teaches at Boston College.

Portrait by A. Mathiowetz

Studios

Barnard

Elizabeth Graver worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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