Elizabeth A. Tucker is a fiction writer, poet, playwright, and sixth-generation Californian living at 6600′ above sea level in the Sierra Nevada mountains with her husband and two kids. Her short stories, often rooted in the fault-prone landscape of Northern California, can be found in a host of national and international literary publications.

Elizabeth is a two-time finalist with Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. The first chapter of her novel, The Pale Flesh of Wood, was published in The Bangalore Review and the third chapter received an Honorable Mention with the 2017 JuxtaProse Short Story Contest and later published in JuxtaProse Magazine. If He Had, He Would was chosen as a finalist in the 2020 Craft Elements Fiction Contest and published in Ponder Review Magazine. Her short story Apartment 14B was chosen by The Whistling Fire as the introduction story for its themed issue on Truth in May 2012. Her essay Make Good Choices, a piece exploring the thrill of her 16-year daughter coming home from the DMV armed with her driver’s license against the backdrop of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s death on the same day, was chosen as a finalist in Cutthroat Magazine’s 2020 Barry Lopez Prize for non-fiction.

Her other works of poetry and short fiction have been published in numerous literary journals including: Transfer Magazine, Red River Review, The Aroostook Review, SNReview, and Tahoe Blues, an anthology published by Bona Fide books, and more. Her play, Catch and Release, was produced in Truckee Community Theater’s 10-Minute Play Fall Festival in 2019.

Elizabeth obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism at San Diego State University, graduated summa cum laude from San Francisco State’s Creative Writing Program and most recently is a graduate of the Stanford Novel Writing Program and the Writing by Writers Draft Program.

When not writing or playing the double bass with the Reno Pops Orchestra, Elizabeth can usually be found anywhere outside skiing, surfing, kitesurfing, hiking, mountain biking or just wandering the woods with a strong cup of coffee. She serves as a founding member of the board of directors of Adventure Risk Challenge, a youth literacy and leadership non-profit, empowering at-risk teens to make positive change in their lives through integrated academics and wilderness experiences.