Elizabeth Quirk has an MA in Literature from Texas State University in addition to her BA in English from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Her story "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman" was shortlisted for the CRAFT 2025 Short Fiction Prize. "Trash," another story, was an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Plentitudes Prize. "The Intimacy of Longitude and Latitude" was first runner-up for the 2023 Robert Day Award for Fiction and her story "Meg's Fever" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022. Her story "Plague of Wolves" won the James Hurst Award for Fiction in 2021.
She is currently working on a novel.
"May Queen," The Tiny Journal
second runner-up in the (re)tell me a story contest
"Meg's Fever" and "Letty's Saint," LEON Literary Review
"Downflight," The Bookends Review
"Dot's Tangle," Chariot Press
"Plague of Wolves," Waxing and Waning
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