About Liz

Liz Breazeale was awarded a 2020 Creative Writing Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. Originally from Missouri, she holds a BA in Creative Writing from Missouri State University and received her MFA in fiction from Bowling Green State University in 2015. She’s served as an editor for numerous literary journals, the Mid-American Review, Blue Monday Review, The Adroit Journal.

Liz is the recipient of the 2018 Prairie Schooner Book Prize for Fiction for her first short story collection, Extinction Events, which was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2019. Her fiction has been featured in the Best of the Net anthology, nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and selected as runner-up for the Wabash Prize. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Hayden’s Ferry, The Collagist, Fugue, Pleiades, Fence, The Sycamore Review, Passages North, Booth, Territory, and others.

Liz works as a technical editor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She lives in Denver with her cat April Ludgate-Breazeale. Liz is working on her second book, a short story collection of feminist body horror.

Interviews, Reviews, and Blogs

Lighthouse Writers Workshop (Craft Series interview); The Rupture (interview); Fiction Writers Review (guest post for “Stories We Love” blog series); The Rumpus (interview); Science (review); University of Nebraska Press (guest post for “From the Desk of” blog series); The Adroit Journal (interview); Fiction Writers Review (interview); Lighthouse Writers Workshop (guest post and recording for “By The Book” blog series); BGSU English Department (interview) MSU English Department (interview).