Elizabeth Tallent

Elizabeth Tallent (born Elizabeth Ann Tallent, August 8, 1954 Washington, D.C.) is an American fiction writer, academic, and essayist.

Tallent's short stories and essays have been published in literary magazines and journals such as The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's Magazine, The Threepenny Review,Tin House, Zyzzyva, and North American Review, and her work has been reprinted in the O. Henry Prize Stories,Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, and Pushcart Prize collections.

Her memoir Perfectionism is forthcoming from Harper. Mendocino Fire, her first collection of short stories in more than 20 years, was published in October 2015. The New York Times Book Review praised Tallent's "ability to create characters who force us to withhold judgment and leave us gasping at their absolute, solid reality."Publishers Weekly called the volume "a smart, thought-provoking study of desire and disappointment." Tin House described it as "driving, furious, erotic, gilded, the sentences flying at you like arrows." The collection is a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

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