Elizabeth Denton

(1998)
Lecturer
Fiction Writing

Degrees

MFA Columbia University, 1981
BA St. Lawrence University (cum laude), 1978

Books

  • Still Life with Children (stories), under consideration
  • Kneeling on Rice (stories), University of Missouri Press, 1995

Stories

  • “The House Across the Street,” under consideration.
  • “Ask ZZ If You Don’t Believe Me,” forthcoming in the Spring 2009 Anniversary issue of the Massachusetts Review.
  • “Out of the Blue,” Massachusetts Review, Spring, 2007.
  • “The Birthday Party,” The Yale Review, July 2004.
  • “Lice,” Massachusetts Review, Spring 2003
  • "Taco Bell," Virginia Quarterly Review, forthcoming
  • "Lice," The Massachusetts Review, spring 2002
  • "Mick Jagger's Green-Eyed Daughter, The Yale Review, fall 2002
  • "To Die For" (retitled "Single Mom"), The Kenyon Review, summer 2001

Screenplays

  • “Teacher,” commissioned by Nick Meyers and David Foster Productions, 2005. 
  • “Generations,” commissioned by Burnt Mountain Films, Spring 1993.

Awards, Prizes, Grants, Readings

  • Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2006, 2007, 2008.
  • The Yale Review prize for the best story of the year, 2003.
  • Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Summer 2000.
  • Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fall 1996.
  • Project grant from the Virginia Council for the Arts, 1996.
  • Project grant from the Virginia Council for the Arts, 1992.Virginia Prize for Fiction, 1990.
  • Readings at:  Second Street Gallery, Barnes & Nobles, Virginia Festival of the Book, Politics and Prose (Washington D.C.), Harbour Front Festival (Toronto), St. Lawrence University, Columbia University, Hampden Sydney College, Mary Baldwin College, Hollins College, Randolph Macon University, James Madison University, UVa Bookstore, New Dominion Bookstore, Williams Corner Bookstore and others.