Elizabeth Kirschner

Elizabeth Kirschner has published five volumes of poetry, including My Life as a Doll and Surrender to Light. The former was nominated for the Lenore Marshall Prize and the Patterson Book Prize and named Kirschner as the Literary Arts Fellow in the state of Maine, in 2010. Her memoir, Walking the Bones, was published in 2015.

Kirschner has been writing and teaching multi-genres across four decades. She served as faculty in Fairfield University's low-residence MFA in Creative Writing Program and has also taught at Boston College and Carnegie-Mellon University.

She has collaborated with many classical composers and this work is featured on numerous CDs, including The Dichterliebe in Four Seasons, Schumann/Kirschner.

She currently serves as a writing mentor and manuscript consultant and teaches various workshops in and around her community in Kittery Point, Maine.