Elizabeth Graver
Professor
Biography
Elizabeth Graver is co-director of the Creative Writing Concentration and teaches fiction and nonfiction writing workshops, including “Advanced Fiction Workshop,” “Writing About Place,” and “Writing the Family, Past and Present.” She also teaches in the Core and offers contemporary literature electives. She is the founder of Fiction Days and has brought many writers to campus, including John Banville, Anne Berest, Edwidge Danticat, Anne Enright, Gish Jen, Yiyun Li, Edward P. Jones, Dina Nayeri, Grace Paley, Zadie Smith, and Ocean Vuong. Elizabeth Graver's novel, Kantika , was awarded a National Jewish Book Award, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Julia Ward Howe Award, and the Massachusetts Book Award; it has been translated into Turkish and German. Her fourth novel, The End of the Point , was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in fiction. Her other novels are Awake , The Honey Thief , and Unravelling . Her short story collection, Have You Seen Me? , won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories , Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards , The Pushcart Prize Anthology , and Best American Essays . She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Yaddo Foundation, the Hadassah Brandeis Institute, the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College, and the Guggenheim Foundation. For a detailed bibliography, please see her author’s website .
Official evaluation summary
Courses taught
- ENGL1712 Roots and Routes: Reading Identity, Migration, and Culture
- ENGL4579 Writing Workshop: Fiction
- ENGL4915 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
- ENGL2221 Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGL1079 Literature Core for Multilingual Students
- ENGL5575 Topics in Creative Non-Fiction (CNF): Writing Place
- ENGL4580 Fiction: Second Workshop
- ENGL4619 Dear Self, Dear World: The Art of the Letter
- UNCP4619 Dear Self, Dear World: The Art of the Letter