Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books: Here’s Your Hat What’s Your HurryThe Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over AgainAn Exact Replica of a Figment of My ImaginationThunderstruck & Other StoriesBowlawayThe Souvenir Museum, and The Hero of This Book. She’s received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Liguria Study Center, the American Academy in Berlin, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Thunderstruck & Other Stories won the 2015 Story Prize. Her work has been published in The Best American Short StoriesThe Pushcart PrizeThe O. Henry PrizeThe New York Times Magazine, and many other places.

She teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, and in the low residency MFA program at Bennington College.

You can find her rather often, entirely too often, really, on Twitter.

Learn more about Elizabeth and her books at: Elizabeth McCracken, Author of Bowlaway and The Giant's House