Elizabeth Winthrop

Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop was born and raised in New York City. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2001, and in 2004 received her M.F.A. in fiction from the University of California at Irvine where she was the Schaeffer Writing Fellow for the 2004-5 academic year.

She is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Fireworks and December, and has published stories in Wind Magazine, the Evansville Review, the Missouri Review, Red Rock Review, and the Indiana Review.