Elizabeth Brus is a writer, tutor, and freelancer living in Brooklyn. Recovering teacher.
Publications:
Fiction:
“A Mother Makes a Death,” Evergreen Review, 2024
finalist, Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction, 2022
“The Lady Baguette,” New Orleans Review, 2023
“Lina and Nina,” Cleaver Magazine, September 2023
nominated, Best American Short Stories 2024
longlist, Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction 2022
finalist, Prime Number Magazine Awards 2022
“Tsepiso’s Life, Recorded,” Fiction International 55: Dream, fall 2022
“A Cement Mother,” The Normal School, March 2022
finalist, Gigantic Sequins Flash Fiction Contest, 2021
Satire:
“I am a Carnivorous Kestrel Falcon with Postpartum Depression,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, June 2022
“Governor Cuomo Explains Our Sexual Trauma To Us,” The Belladonna Comedy, August 2021
Workshops, et cetera :
Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop 2022 * Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Lesotho 2005-2007 * M.Sc. in Creative Writing, University of Edinburgh 2005 * started writing again 2021