Elizabeth Kirschner

About The Author

Elizabeth Kirschner has written across decades. Her books include My Life as a Doll, Waking the Bones, and her debut collection of stories, Because the Sky Is a Thousand Soft Hurts. Kirschner expertly crafts the unexpected in stories that leave the reader feeling haunted and moved. Her voice is poetic, lyrical, and singular. Book after book is monumental exploration of beauty in unpredictable places. She exposes the vulnerable and damaged through the lens of hope and redemption. A Master Gardener, Kirschner currently lives in Blue Hill, ME.

Books by Elizabeth Kirschner

Learning to Hit My Mother

Stories of Calamity

By Elizabeth Kirschner
For fans of Cormac McCarthy, a novel-in-stories that chronicles, with compelling accuracy and violence and through shape-shifting prose and rococo, one girl’s passage from childhood to motherhood in a small midwestern town.
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