Background
Liz Rosenberg is the author of five adult novels, four books of poetry, and more than 30 books for young readers, from picture books to poetry anthologies and YA biographies. For about 25 years, she was Book Review Columnist at the Boston Globe, and her work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's, Paris Review and elsewhere. She was a 2014 Fulbright Fellow to Belfast, North Ireland. Her specialization is creative writing and American literature.
Education
- PhD, 91社区
- MA, Johns Hopkins University
- BA, Bennington College
Research Interests
- Creative writing
- Biography: L. M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott
- Women's diaries and journals
- 19th and 20th century novels
- Comparative Literature
- Jewish American Literature
Teaching Interests
- Creative writing: Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, biography; writing for children
- The Experience of Place
- Young People's Literature
- Hybrid forms: prose poetry, sudden fiction, tales, speculative fiction
- Jewish American Humor (crosslisted with Judaic Studies)
- Family Stories
Awards
- Best Books for Teenage Readers: NY Public Library, The New Yorker
- Riverbank Review
- PBS Featured Reading Rainbow Book
- IBBY Award
- Amazon #1 Fiction bestseller
- Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Grant
- Seamus Heany Visiting Poetry Professor, Belfast, NI.