Elizabeth Mayer
Mother, & service-industry worker living in Charlottesville, Virginia, Elizabeth Mayer’s previous work has appeared in Burningword Literary Journal, Mala Leche Feminist Zine, The Forge Literary Magazine, Bodega Magazine, CHEAP POP, Fiction Writers Review, CRAFT, & elsewhere. My story “Mother” was nominated by the editors of Bodega Magazine for a Pushcart Prize, and I was chosen by Emily Nemens as first runner-up for the 2021 Robert Day Fiction Prize. I am the founder and editor of Husk Zine (huskzine.com), and I hold an MFA in Fiction from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.