Elise Blackwell is the author of five novels: Hunger, The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish, Grub, An Unfinished Score, and The Lower Quarter. Her sixth novel, The Forgetting Curve, is forthcoming next year. Elise’s work has been translated into several languages, and her books have been named to numerous best-of-the-year lists, adapted for the stage, and served as the inspiration for a Decemberists’ song. Originally from southern Louisiana, Elise teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Carolina and hosts the literary series The Open Book.

Read interviews with Elise here and here.

Read a review of The Lower Quarter here.

Read some pieces she wrote about writing The Lower Quarter here, here, and here.

In addition to working on her seventh novel, Elise is writing a hundred flash fictions triggered by Pablo Neruda’s love sonnets and set along the Gulf Coast. Unlike Neruda’s poems, which are written in the voice of one lover to one beloved, these pieces share no characters and explore a wide range of romantic experience.

Read “Tender Fire” at Monkeybicycle
Read “Necrotic” at Fractured Lit
Read “Zero Plastic” at The Rupture
Read “Aventine” at The Stockholm Review
Read “Your Daily Bread” at New Flash Fiction Review
Read “Cancer Alley” at Atticus Review
Read “Glass House” at Necessary Fiction
Read “Hotel Monteleone” at The Offing
Read “Never Not Wrong” at Cabinet of Heed