Elizabeth Strout

• Instructor , MFA Program, Fiction
• College of Arts and Sciences

Elizabeth Strout is the author of the 2009 Pulitzer-Prize winner, "Olive Kitteridge," a collection of connected short stories set in Maine. She is also the author of the New York Times best-selling "Amy and Isabelle," which won the L.A. Times Award for First Fiction, The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was short listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award, as well as the Orange Prize in England. It was made into a television movie by Harpo Productions. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel "Abide With Me." Her short stories and nonfiction have appeared in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and The New York Times. She has taught at Bard College, Warren Wilson's M.F.A. Program, and for many years at Manhattan Community College. She lives in New York City