Elizabeth (Liz) Poliner teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at Hollins University. Her most recent book, the novel As Close to Us as Breathing, was published in 2016 by Lee Boudreaux Books at Little, Brown & Co. The novel won the 2017 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in Fiction, and was a 2017 finalist for both the Ribalow Prize for Jewish Fiction and the Library of Virginia People’s Choice Award in Fiction. It was also an Amazon Best Book of 2016. She is also the author of a poetry collection, What You Know in Your Hands, which was a Beltway Poetry Quarterly Best Book of 2015; a poetry chapbook, Sudden Fog; and a novel-in-stories, Mutual Life & Casualty. Her short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Story, Michigan Quarterly Review, Colorado Quarterly, and TriQuarterly, among other journals, and her story “Sabelle” was named a finalist in the 2019 Nelson Algren Literary Award competition and published in the Chicago Tribune. Her poems have been published in The Sun, The Southern Review, The Hopkins Review, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals. While at MacDowell, she worked on a new novel.
Elizabeth Poliner
Studios
Phi Beta
Elizabeth Poliner worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…