A. Elizabeth Mikesell

A. Elizabeth Mikesell is an artist and writer who lives in New York City. She is on the faculty of New York University’s Expository Writing Program, in which she teaches writing to students in the Tisch School of the Arts. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in a number of small literary magazines. Her own creative work runs the gamut: co-creator of the online work The Saddest Thing I Own; co-author (with the actress Jane Lynch) of the children’s book Marlene Marlene, Queen of Mean; and writer of literary essays exploring the convergence of art, personal narrative, and the physical sciences, among many other projects. She has applied for and received numerous grants on her own behalf as well as that of other artists.