Elizabeth McKenzie

American author and editor (born 1958)

Elizabeth McKenzie is an American author and editor. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading. She has received a Pushcart Prize, and her work has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts.^[1]^[2]

Bibliography

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Novels

Stop That Girl (2005)^[3] nominated for The Story Prize.^[1]
MacGregor Tells the World (2007)^[4] was named a San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and Library Journal's Best Book of the year.^[1]
The Portable Veblen (2016)^[5] was longlisted for the National Book Award,^[6] won the California Book Award Silver Medal in Fiction,^[7] and was shortlisted for the Bayley's Women's Prize.^[8]
The Dog of the North (2023).^[9]

Short fiction

Stories^[10]

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
Savage Breast	2014	"Savage Breast". The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 40. December 15, 2014. pp. 60–65.

Editorial career

McKenzie started as a staff editor at the Atlantic Monthly.^[11] She is managing editor and fiction editor for the Catamaran Literary Reader, and the senior editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review.^[12]^[13]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Elizabeth McKenzie". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
^ "Elizabeth McKenzie". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
^ Houston, Pam (March 13, 2005). "'Stop That Girl': Women on the Verge". The New York Times. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
^ North, Anna (July 4, 2007). "REVIEW / A lovesick bookworm attempts to expose his family's scandals". SF Gate. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
^ Thomas, Scarlett (February 18, 2016). "The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie review – raw, weird and hilarious". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2018.. The Portable Veblen was shortlisted for the 2016 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.
^ "2016 National Book Award Longlist, Fiction". nationalbook.org. National Book Foundation. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
^ "Winners of 86th Annual California Book Awards Competition Announced". Commonwealth Club. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
^ "The 2016 Shortlist is Revealed". Women's Prize for Fiction. 6 May 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
^ "The Dog of the North". Penguin Random House. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
^ "Elizabeth McKenzie". Inkwell Management. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
^ "4th annual Catamaran Writing Conference at Pebble Beach". Catamaran Literary Reader. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
^ "Staff". Chicago Quarterly Review. June 17, 2009. Retrieved May 16, 2017.