About Elizabeth Enslin
I’m currently working on an ethnographic memoir – Sacred Threads – about my experiences as an anthropologist and family member in Nepal. I grew up in Seattle, received my PhD from Stanford University and now live with my partner and our standard poodle in Oregon. We divide our time between a house in Portland and a yurt in Wallowa County.
If you’d like to know more about me and my writing, visit www.elizabethenslin.com
I have published literary nonfiction and some poems in various literary journals. Recognition includes honorable mentions for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Essays, Oregon State Poetry Association and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission. You can see a more comprehensive list of my publications here.
“Natural Births,” The Gettysburg Review, Spring 2009.
“Ama,” The Crab Orchard Review, Spring 2009, finalist for the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize (This publication’s website is out of date. Perhaps you can still order a copy by calling 618-453-6833).
“Fieldnotes on Flooding in Nepal,” The Truth About the Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction, Spring 2009. A few copies may still available for purchase at Small Press Distributors.
“Witnessing Indra’s Sin,” Fishtrap Anthropology 2008: Speaking Truth.
Online
“Costume,” In Posse Review, Winter 2011.
“A Grammar for Yurt Living, The Smoking Poet, Winter 2009/2010
“Three Signs of Maturity,” Opium Magazine, September 2009.
“A Nature Lover’s Phobia,” Fringe Magazine: The Environment Issue, March 2009.
“Looking for Black Gibbons,” In the Mist: A Women’s Outdoor Literary Jourrnal, January 2009.
Thanks
Thanks to Jerry Gaffke for many of the photos on this website.
