English Department Faculty
Elizabeth Graver
Professor
Elizabeth Graver
M.F.A.
Contact
Stokes Hall S439
Telephone: 617-552-4154
Email: graver@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0003-2981-8378
Education
- B.A., Wesleyan University
- M.F.A., Washington University
Research Interests
Creative Writing; Fiction; Non-Fiction; Contemporary Literatures of Migration; Literary Historical Fiction; Women's Studies.
Department
Biography
Elizabeth Graver is co-director of the Creative Writing Concentration and teaches fiction and nonfiction writing workshops, including “Advanced Fiction Workshop,” “Writing About Place,” and “Writing Across Cultures.” She also teaches in the Core and offers contemporary literature electives, most recently with a focus on literatures of migration. She is the founder of Fiction Days and has brought many writers to campus, including John Banville, Anne Berest, Edwidge Danticat, Anne Enright, Gish Jen, Edward P. Jones, Dina Nayeri, Grace Paley, Zadie Smith, and Ocean Vuong.
Elizabeth Graver's novel, Kantika, was awarded a National Jewish Book Award, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Julia Ward Howe Award, and the Massachusetts Book Award. Her fourth novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in fiction. Her other novels are Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best American Essays. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Yaddo Foundation, the Hadassah Brandeis Institute, the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College, and the Guggenheim Foundation. For a detailed bibliography, please see her author’s website.
Selected Publications
Books
- Kantika (Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt, 2023); Mareverlag (German edition, 2024); Everest (Turkish edition forthcoming 2025)
- The End of the Point (Harpercollins, 2013)
- Awake (Henry Holt, 2004)
- The Honey Thief (Hyperion, 1999)
- Unravelling (Hyperion, 1997)
- Have You Seen Me? (Ecco Press, 1993)
- "Remembering My Friend and Agent, Richard Parks" (Literary Hub, May 8, 2024)
- "'Jews of the Spanish Homeland': Finding My Sephardic Family in a 1929 Film" (Jewish Book Council, April 10, 2023)
- The Story of My Grandmother That Took Forty Years to Write,(Zibby Magazine, May 2023)
- Interview with former student, Yang Huang (Catapult, May 2021)
- "Corona (of a Star, etc.)" (Harvard Review, March 2020)
- "B-Side, On Edgar P. Jones's All Aunt Hagar's Children" (Public Books, 5/2/2019)
- “Welcome Home” Tablet (October 26, 2016)
- “Walker Evans, Kitchen Wall” (Gastronomica Magazine, July, 2012)
- “Distance Education” (Boston College Magazine, Fall 2010).