Elizabeth K Reeder writes novels, essays, and stories. 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. AN ARCHIVE OF HAPPINESS a novel, was published by Penned in the Margins in September 2020 and longlisted for the Highland Book Prize. 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 enjoyed by a wide range of people, with an element of a work coming alive in the imagination of readers. She holds a doctorate in English Literature/Creative Writing and was senior lecturer Creative Writing at University of Glasgow for twenty years (and is now free!). 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, which 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. They were a RSE Network 2022-24. DeathWrites are publishing an anthology: WRITING DOWN DEATH AND DYING with Scottish Universities Press, to be published in Spring 2028. 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. Elizabeth organises and is invited to run workshops, seminars and talks on a range of subjects, including her own books and processes; the expanded form essay and hybrid forms; the mess of creative practice and how to hold it, work with it, 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, neurodivergence, chronic illness, narrative structure and many others. Please do reach out if you’re interested in having her run workshops, residencies, or courses.Originally from Chicago, and having lived in Scotland for over 30 years, Elizabeth is someone who belongs between places, and yet, now, is really quite Scottish even if her accent remains mid-atlantic.. instagram: @ekreeder26