Valentine (Wetmore) - Author Bio

Author Bio
Born—ca. 1967-1968
Raised—Odessa, Texas, USA
Education—M.F.A., Iowa Writers' Workshop
Currently—lives in Chicago, Illinois


Elizabeth Wetmore is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Epoch, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Baltimore Review, Crab Orchard Review, Iowa Review, and other literary journals.

She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, as well as a grant from the Barbara Deming Foundation. She was also a Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction at Bread Loaf and a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and one of six Writers in Residence at Hedgebrook.

A native of Odessa in west Texas, she lives and works in Chicago. (From the publisher.)