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 Elizabeth
Bruce, a native Texan, is a writer, arts educator, and theatre artist
living in northeast Washington, D.C. She was recently awarded a Poets & Writers,
Inc., Readings/Workshop Award, and has twice received both literary
and acting fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
She has published in The Washington Post, Long
Short Story, Lines and Stars: A District Literary Journal, Writers
on the Green Line: An Anthology, and other area publications.
She was a selected participant in the inaugural Heritage Writers
Workshop, founded and led by novelist Richard Bausch, at George Mason
University, as well as the Jenny McKean Moore Workshop in Fiction,
with novelist John McNally, at George Washington University, and
the Rappahannack Fiction Writers Workshop. She has worshopped fiction
with novelists Richard Bausch, Lee K. Abbott, Janet Peery, John McNally,
Liam Callanan, Maxine Clair, Patricia Browning Griffith, Tina McElroy
Ansa, Alan Lefcowitz, and Lisa Schamess. Ms. Bruce is a member of
The Playwrights Forum, and has had co-authored scripts produced at
Adventure Theatre, Washington Ethical Society, and Sanctuary Theatre,
and performed most recently with the Irish arts theatre company,
Solas Nua, and with Sanctuary Theatre at the 2007 Capital Fringe
Festival. Her play, Sheila's Iron, won first place in the
W.F. Lucas Playwriting Competition sponsored by Carpetbag Theatre
of Knoxville, Tennessee. A graduate of The Colorado College, she
is a member of numerous literary, theatre and arts organizations,
including AWP/Association of Writers and Writing Programs, The Writer's
Center, Washington Independent Writers, Texas Coalition of Authors,
Women Writing the West, The Writers' League of Texas, American
PEN Center, The Actors' Center, and Alternate ROOTS. Elizabeth
Bruce has long been Arts Director at CentroNia, a bilingual,
multicultural educational organization serving children, youth, and
families in Columbia Heights and other neighborhoods of Washington,
D.C., and Maryland, and with her husband, Michael Oliver, and Jill
Navarre, she co-founded D.C.'s Sanctuary Theatre, Inc., in
1984. She and her husband have raised their two teenage children
in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, D.C. And
Silent Left the Place, which has been recommended by Small Press Distributors,
is her first novel. |
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