Last Name: Black
First Name: Elizabeth
Middle: D
 
Address:
City: Lawrence
State: KS
Zip Code: 66049
 
E-mail: liz@elizabethblack.com
Website: www.elizabethblack.com
 
Birth Date: 12-3-1946
Deceased Date:
 
Genre: Fiction
 
Book Title #1: Buffalo Spirits, Story Line Press, 2004 (paperback published in 2006)
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Bio

After a long career as a writer and journalist in both Chicago and Washington DC, Elizabeth Black moved to Lawrence, Kansas in 2006. Her column, “Back to the Center,” in the Lawrence Journal-World examines Kansas culture from the perspective of an East Coast transplant returning to her roots. She also teaches the class, "Voices of the Prairie," on literature that sprang from the prairie pioneer experience for Osher Institute at Kansas University Continuing Education. Elizabeth is the author of the novel Buffalo Spirits, which drew on her experiences growing up in western Kansas. The novel was named a finalist in the William Faulkner Novel Competition in 2002 and was awarded the 2003 Three Oaks Prize in Fiction. Buffalo Spirits was first published by Story Line Press in Spring 2004 with a paperback version releasing in late fall of 2006. The novel also earned Elizabeth a three-month Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency in July 2005 in Taos, New Mexico, where she began work on a second novel.