Elisabeth Sharp McKetta has been a small press editor, a college professor, a hat seller, a poet, a dog-owner, a Texan, an Idahoan, and most recently a mother. 

Her fiction, essays, and poetry have been published widely, and her play, “Zelda Speaks of Swans,” has been performed in two theater festivals. In 2011 she won a writing contest for Real Simple Magazine and served as their guest blogger. Her 2012 poetry collection, The Fairy Tales Mammals Tell, was described by Ben Fountain as “wise, unflinching poems.”

Elisabeth has literature degrees from Harvard, Georgetown, and the University of Texas at Austin. She wrote a PhD dissertation on the intersections between memoir and myth, a concept that now informs her teaching. She teaches writing at Harvard Extension School. 

Elisabeth lives with her husband, two children, and Labrador. She enjoys hiking, reading, cooking, making new friends and drinking tea with old friends.