Elizabeth Poliner

Elizabeth Poliner is the author of As Close to Us as Breathing, a novel (winner of the 2017 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in Fiction and an Amazon Best Book of 2016); Mutual Life & Casualty, a novel in stories; and What You Know in Your Hands, a poetry collection; and Sudden Fog, a poetry chapbook. She is an associate professor and current director of the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University.