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Elizabeth Poliner

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 at Hollins University, where she currently holds the Susan Gager Jackson Chair in Creative Writing.


Endings That Change Everything: On Alice Munro’s Literary Innovations

Elizabeth Poliner Close Reads Anton Chekhov’s “The Darling” and Munro’s “Friend of My Youth”
July 9, 2021  By Elizabeth Poliner
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The Shape of His Stories: In Praise of Edward P. Jones

Elizabeth Poliner Returns to Three Stories in Lost in the City
October 5, 2020  By Elizabeth Poliner
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How Mapping Alice Munro’s Stories Helped Me As a Writer

Elizabeth Poliner On the Shapes That Fiction Can Take
April 27, 2016  By Elizabeth Poliner
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