Portable Veblen (McKenzie)

Author Bio
• Birth—February 24, 1958 (?)
• Raised—near Los Angeles, California, USA
• Education—B.A., University of California-Santa Cruz; M.A., Stanford University
• Currently—lives in Santa Cruz, California


Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of the novel The Portable Veblen (2016), the collection, Stop That Girl (2005), short-listed for The Story Prize, and the novel MacGregor Tells the World (2007), a Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and Library Journal Best Book of the year.

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize anthology, and has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. She was an NEA/Japan US-Friendship Commission Fellow in 2010.

She received her BA from University of California-Santa Cruz and her MA from Stanford. She was an assistant fiction editor at The Atlantic and currently teaches creative writing at Stanford's school of continuing studies. (Adapted from the publisher.)