Today, we present Part 2 of my conversation with author Elizabeth Bruce.
A native Texan, Elizabeth Bruce is a Washington, D.C.-based author, educator, and theatre artist. Her debut story collection, Universally Adored & Other One Dollar Stories, was published in January 2024 by the Athens, Greece-based Vine Leaves Press. Her debut novel, And Silent Left the Place, won Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s Fiction Award, ForeWord Magazine’s Bronze Fiction Prize, and was one of two finalists for the Texas Institute of Letters’ Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction.
Bruce has published prose in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Sweden, Romania, India, South Korea, Malawi, Yemen, and The Philippines, including in FireWords Quarterly, Pure Slush, takahē magazine, The Ilanot Review, Spadina Literary Review, Inklette, Lines & Stars, and others, as well as in such anthologies from Paycock Press’ Gargoyle series, Weasel Press’ How Well You Walk through Madness: An Anthology of Beat, Vine Leaves Literary Journal: A Collection of Vignettes from Across the Globe; Madville Publishing’s Muddy Backroads, Two Thirds North, multiple Gargoyle anthologies, and Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s This Is What America Looks Like.
Her educational book, CentroNía’s English and Spanish editions of the Theatrical Journey Playbook: Introducing Science to Early Learners through Guided Pretend Play garnered awards from four indie book contests.
As a character actor, she co-founded DC’s Sanctuary Theatre with Michael Oliver and Jill Navarre. She’s co-written scripts performed at the Adventure Theatre and the Capital Fringe Festival; one of her plays won Carpetbag Theatre’s W.F. Lucas Playwrighting Competition.
Bruce has been awarded several fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Poets & Writers, and the McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Microfictions. She’s workshopped fiction with Richard Bausch, the late Lee K. Abbott, Janet Peery, John McNally, and Liam Callanan.
An honors graduate in English from The Colorado College, Elizabeth and her husband, writer/educator Robert Michael Oliver, have long lived in NE DC, where they raised their two adult children, Maya and Dylan.
For more information about Elizabeth, click here.
For Elizabeth’s books, click Silent, One Dollar, and Journey.
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