English Department Faculty
Elizabeth Graver
Professor
Elizabeth Graver
M.F.A.
Contact
Stokes Hall S439
Telephone: 617-552-4154
Email: graver@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- B.A., Wesleyan University
- M.F.A., Washington University
Research Interests
Creative Writing; Fiction; Non-Fiction; Contemporary Literatures of Migration; Literary Historical Fiction; Women's Studies.听
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Department
Biography
Elizabeth Graver is co-director of the Creative Writing Concentration and teaches fiction and nonfiction writing workshops, including 鈥淎dvanced Fiction Workshop,鈥� 鈥淲riting About Place,鈥� and 鈥淲riting Across Cultures.鈥� She also teaches in the Core and offers contemporary literature electives, most recently with a focus on literatures of migration. 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, 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. 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 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 .
Selected Publications
Books
- (Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt, 2023); Mareverlag (German edition, 2024); Everest (Turkish edition forthcoming 2025)
- 听(Harpercollins, 2013)
- Awake (Henry Holt, 2004)
- The Honey Thief听(Hyperion, 1999)
- Unravelling听(Hyperion, 1997)
- Have You Seen Me?听(Ecco Press, 1993)
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- (Literary Hub, May 8, 2024)
- (Jewish Book Council, April 10, 2023)
- ,(Zibby Magazine, May 2023)
- (Catapult, May 2021)听
- ""听(Harvard Review,听March 2020)
- ""听(Public Books, 5/2/2019)
- Tablet听(October 26,听2016)
- 听(Gastronomica Magazine, July, 2012)
- 听(Boston College Magazine, Fall 2010).