Originally from Northern California, Elizabeth Erbeznik (she/her) lives and writes in Austin, TX. Her fiction has appeared in Los Angeles Review, Split Lip Magazine, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. Her first published story “Fly Season” was included in the 2020 Best Small Fictions anthology. Her poetry has appeared in Anacapa Review and Flyway. With a BA from UCLA and PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, her academic work focused on representations of working women in the nineteenth-century city. These days, she works in the field of international education and, because of a fateful decision made in the seventh grade, she speaks French rather than Spanish. 

 

Her prose chapbook The Oboe is a Duck was the winner of the 2026 Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Award and is forthcoming from The Florida Review.