Elizabeth Bruce

Literary Fiction Author @Washington Writers\' Publishing House

Washington, DC, US

Elizabeth Bruce’s debut novel, AND SILENT LEFT THE PLACE (new edition 2021/author-read audiobook published in 2022), won Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s Fiction Award, ForeWord Magazine’s Bronze Fiction Prize, and was one of two finalists for the Texas Institute of Letters’ Award for Best Work of First Fiction. Bruce has published in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malawi, India, Yemen, Sweden, Israel, and The Philippines, including in FireWords Quarterly, Pure Slush, takahē magazine, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Inklette, Lines & Stars, and others, as well as in such anthologies as Paycock Press’ Gargoyle 64 and Gravity Dancers, Weasel Press’ How Well You Walk through Madness: An Anthology of Beat, Vine Leaves Literary Journal: A Collection of Vignettes from Across the Globe; and Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s This Is What America Looks Like. Her educational book, CentroNía’s English and Spanish editions of the Theatrical Journey Playbook: Introducing Science to Early Learners through Guided Pretend Play garnered awards from four indie book contests. A native of the small Gulf Coast town of LaMarque, Elizabeth has lived in Washington, DC, since 1983. As a character actor, she, with her husband Robert Michael Oliver, and Jill Navarre, co-founded Sanctuary Theatre in the Columbia Heights neighborhood. She’s co-written scripts performed at the Adventure Theatre and the Capital Fringe Festival; one of her plays won Carpetbag Theatre’s W.F. Lucas Playwrighting Competition. Bruce has been awarded several fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Poets & Writers, and the McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation; she\'s been nominated for a Pushcart and was a Fellow at A.I.R. Studio Paducah. She’s workshopped fiction with Richard Bausch, the late Lee K. Abbott, Janet Peery, John McNally, and Liam Callanan.

Colorado College

English Language and Literature/Letters

LaMarque High School

HS Diploma

The New School

Post-Baccalaureate Coursework in Experimental Theatre

The University of Texas at Austin

Sociology

Metropolitan State University of Denver

Post Baccalaureate Studies in Theatre