Biography

Elizabeth Eslami, author of Bone Worship

Iranian-American author Elizabeth Eslami was born in Gaffney, South Carolina.  She attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she received her B.A. in 2000.  She went on to earn an M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

After completing her graduate studies, she moved to rural southwestern Montana, where she spent four years working a variety of odd jobs, including house-sitter and hotel maid, while completing her first book, the acclaimed debut novel Bone Worship, (Pegasus, 2010) which has been called “wildly original” by Joan Silber and “a treasure” by David Haynes.

Eslami’s essays, short stories, and travel writing have appeared in numerous publications, including The Millions, Matador, and The Literary Review, and her work will be featured in the forthcoming anthologies Not in My Father’s House: An Anthology of Fiction By Iranian American Writers and Writing Off Script: Writers on the Influence of Cinema. She is a regular contributor to The Nervous Breakdown. Her story collection, The Hibernarium, was a finalist for the 2011 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

Elizabeth Eslami is currently Adjunct Professor and Lecturer of Creative Writing at Manhattanville College. She is working on her second novel.