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    Elizabeth McKenzie

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    Elizabeth McKenzie is an American author and editor. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading. She has received a Pushcart Prize, and her work has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts.[1][2]

    Bibliography[edit]

    Novels[edit]

    • Stop That Girl (2005)[3] nominated for The Story Prize.[1]
    • MacGregor Tells the World (2007)[4] was named a San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and Library Journal's Best Book of the year.[1]
    • The Portable Veblen (2016)[5] was longlisted for the National Book Award,[6] won the California Book Award Silver Medal in Fiction,[7] and was shortlisted for the Bayley's Women's Prize.[8]
    • The Dog of the North (2023).[9]

    Short fiction[edit]

    Stories[10]
    Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
    Savage Breast 2014 "Savage Breast". The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 40. December 15, 2014. pp. 60–65.

    Editorial career[edit]

    McKenzie started as a staff editor at the Atlantic Monthly.[11] She is managing editor and fiction editor for the Catamaran Literary Reader, and the senior editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review.[12][13]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ a b c "Elizabeth McKenzie". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
    2. ^ "Elizabeth McKenzie". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
    3. ^ Houston, Pam (March 13, 2005). "'Stop That Girl': Women on the Verge". The New York Times. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
    4. ^ North, Anna (July 4, 2007). "REVIEW / A lovesick bookworm attempts to expose his family's scandals". SF Gate. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
    5. ^ Thomas, Scarlett (February 18, 2016). "The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie review – raw, weird and hilarious". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2018.. The Portable Veblen was shortlisted for the 2016 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.
    6. ^ "2016 National Book Award Longlist, Fiction". nationalbook.org. National Book Foundation. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
    7. ^ "Winners of 86th Annual California Book Awards Competition Announced". Commonwealth Club. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
    8. ^ "The 2016 Shortlist is Revealed". Women's Prize for Fiction. 6 May 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
    9. ^ "The Dog of the North". Penguin Random House. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
    10. ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
    11. ^ "Elizabeth McKenzie". Inkwell Management. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
    12. ^ "4th annual Catamaran Writing Conference at Pebble Beach". Catamaran Literary Reader. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
    13. ^ "Staff". Chicago Quarterly Review. June 17, 2009. Retrieved May 16, 2017.

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