Author Biography and Bibliography

Elizabeth Hand grew up in Pound Ridge, New York, next door to the House where D. W. Griffith once lived. In 1975 she moved to Washington, D.C., to study playwriting at Catholic University, where she was expelled after three years (she was eventually re-admitted and received a degree in cultural anthropology). From 1979 to 1986 she worked at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum. After a brief stint with a British defense contractor, in 1988 she left D.C. for the Maine coast, buying a tiny one-room, lakefront cottage with no running water or indoor plumbing (it now has both). Her novels function as imaginary autobiographies, especially the Tiptree & Mythopoeic Award-winning Waking the Moon and last year's Black Light. Her novella "Last Summer at Mars Hill," set in the fictional analog of a real-life Maine spiritualist community, won both the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She is at work on a novel called The Master Stroke, and now lives in a bigger, older house within shouting distance of her cottage studio.





Photo by Norm Walters.