Inkling
an online journal of poetry and prose

04/14/09

Elizabeth Oness grew up in Chappaqua, New York.  Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, Crazyhorse, Glimmer Train, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review and other literary magazines.  Her stories have received an O. Henry Prize, a Nelson Algren Award, and other notices; her collection, Articles of Faith, won the 2000 Iowa Short Fiction Prize and was published by the University of Iowa Press.  Her first novel, Departures, was published by Penguin in 2004, and Twelve Rivers of the Body won the Gival Press Novel award and was published in October 2009.   Her collection of poems, Fallibility, is forthcoming from New Rivers Press in the fall of 2009.  She is an Associate Professor of English at Winona State University, and directs marketing and development for Sutton Hoo Press, a literary fine press.  She is married to the poet and fine press printer C. Mikal Oness.  They live with their son in rural Minnesota.