Elizabeth McKenzie is an American author and editor. Her work has been featured in ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York T ...

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, Best American Nonrequired Reading.'' She has received a

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

, and her work has been recorded for

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’s Selected Shorts.

Bibliography

Novels

* '' Stop That Girl'' (2005) nominated for The Story Prize. * '' MacGregor Tells the World'' (2007) was named a

San Francisco Chronicle The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as ''The Daily Dramatic Chronicle'' by teenage brothers Charles de Young and M. H. de Young, Michael H. ...

Chicago Tribune The ''Chicago Tribune'' is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once integrated WGN (AM), WGN radio and ...

, and Library Journal's Best Book of the year. * '' The Portable Veblen'' (2016) was longlisted for the National Book Award, won the California Book Award Silver Medal in Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Bayley's Women's Prize. * '' The Dog of the North'' (2023).

Short fiction

;Stories

Editorial career

McKenzie started as a staff editor at the Atlantic Monthly. She is managing editor and fiction editor for the ''Catamaran Literary Reader'', and the senior editor of the ''Chicago Quarterly Review''.

References

External links

Conspicuous Rambunction: Jennifer Bannan interviews Elizabeth McKenzie
{{DEFAULTSORT:McKenzie, Elizabeth Living people American women novelists The New Yorker people University of California, Santa Cruz alumni Stanford University alumni 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers Year of birth missing (living people)