Elizabeth K Reeder writes novels, essays, and stories. An Archive of Happiness, a novel, was published by Penned in the Margins in September 2020 and longlisted for the Highland Book Prize. microbursts, a collection of lyric and intermedial essays about the places between life and death, memoir and poetry - a collaborative work between herself and the artist Amanda Thomson - was published in February 2021 as part of Prototype’s interdisciplinary strand. Previous novels include: Ramshackle which was shortlisted for a number of awards including a Saltire Literary award (2013). Her second novel, Fremont, a story of ill-starred fairytale romance is full of prejudice and desire, garnered great reviews, and re-jigs notions of home, identity and citizenship. Her interest in the essay (in particular in experimental, hybrid forms) has developed from a desire to write so that language, form and structure embed knowledge in a way that can be ‘read’ like poetry and art with a high level of complexity and intentional ambiguity. She holds a doctorate in English Literature/Creative Writing and is a senior lecturer Creative Writing at University of Glasgow. She organises and is invited to run workshops, seminars and talks on a range of subjects, including her own books and processes; the essay; exuberant creative failure; giving and receiving feedback, and on subjects she explores in her texts such as: illness, grief, archives (especially difficult, elusive archives), family, technological and imagined futures, narrative structure and many others. Since 2019 she’s co-run The Reading and writing Death and Dying Artlab at University of Glasgow with Dr Naomi Richards and Dr Amy Shea. They are a RSE Network and will be running a project from Jan22- July 24: ‘COVID 19 as Catalyst for Writing and Discussing Death, Dying and Grief through Objects, Diaries and Collective Archives’', which developed and supports a network of Scotland-based writers from across disciplines and genres to write and publish powerful, accessible work that will broaden and diversify understandings and conversations about death, dying and grief. With Amanda Thomson and Robbie Synge, Elizabeth was also an Endandered Landscape and Seascapes Artist in residence with Cairngorms Connect June 21 -March 24, through which she and Amanda curated A Cairngorms Kist 2023 - a commonplace book of the Cairngorms. She is a MacDowell Fellow. Originally from the States and having lived in Scotland for over 25 years, Elizabeth will always, now, be someone who belongs between places. instagram: @ekreeder26