Elizabeth Inness-Brown
| Elizabeth Inness-Brown | |
|---|---|
| Born | Elizabeth Ann Inness-Brown May 1, 1954 (age 63) Rochester, New York |
| Occupation | Novelist & Educator |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater |
St. Lawrence University, 1976 Columbia University, 1978 |
| Notable works | Burning Marguerite, Here, Satin Palms |
| Notable awards | Pushcart Prize, VII (1982-1983) |
St. Lawrence University, 1976
Elizabeth Inness-Brown is an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and contributing editor at Boulevard. She is a Professor of English at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont and lives in South Hero, Vermont—one of three islands comprising Grand Isle County—with her husband and son. Inness-Brown has published a novel, Burning Marguerite, as well as two short story collections, titled Here and Satin Palms. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker,North American Review,Boulevard, Glimmer Train,Madcap Review, and various other journals. Inness-Brown received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for Writing in 1983 and has done writing residencies at Yaddo and The Millay Colony for the Arts. In 1982, her short story "Release, Surrender" appeared in Volume VII of the Pushcart Prize.
Inness-Brown was born in Rochester, New York on May 1, 1954. She has cited her grandmother Virginia Portia Royall Inness-Brown as a partial inspiration for the title character of her novel, Burning Marguerite. When she was a child, Inness-Brown’s family moved to Louisiana, North Dakota, and Texas before settling in St. Lawrence County, New York, part of a region known as The North Country. In 2001, Inness-Brown wrote about the region in an essay titled "North Country Girls."
Inness-Brown received a B.A. in Fine Arts from St. Lawrence University in 1976 and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 1978. She was a member of the editorial staff at Columbia, a literary journal founded in 1977 by students in the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Writing program. Inness-Brown interviewed Grace Paley for the journal’s second issue alongside fellow staff members Celeste Conway, Laura Levine, Mark Teich, and Keith Monley, whom she would marry a decade later.
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