About

Elizabeth Marian Charles is a writer, teacher, and mother. She holds a BA in English from Seattle University and an MFA in Fiction from Arizona State University. She was a recipient of the 2017 Piper Global Writing Residency Fellowship in Singapore and Hong Kong, and the 2018 Piper Global Teaching Fellowship at the National University of Singapore. Her college-level teaching work includes first year composition and rhetoric, professional and technical writing, introductory fiction, and intermediate fiction. Additional professional experience includes web marketing and communications and freelance editing. She currently teaches first year composition and professional and technical writing at University of South Florida. She is working on a memoir about miscarriage, motherhood, mental health, grief, and how we create meaning from the tectonic shifts that transform our lives.

Awards, Acknowledgments, and Fellowships

• Winner, 2019 Inception Contest by Sunspot Lit

• Honorable Mention, 2019 Annual Woven Tale Press Literary competition (judged by Ann Beattie)

• Finalist, 2019 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize (judged by Elizabeth McCracken)

• Finalist, 2018 Aleida Rodriguez Memorial Award

• 2018 Piper Global Teaching Fellowship in Singapore

• 2017 Piper Global Writing Residency Fellowship in Singapore and Hong Kong

• Semifinalist, 2016 Disquiet Literary Contest