Elizabeth Rush

Elizabeth Rush is the author of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth, and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other books include Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: Essays and Photographs from Yangon, Myanmar. Her work chronicles communities being irrevocably changed by late capitalist industrialization and climate change, and has appeared in Granta, Orion, The New Republic, Le Monde Diplomatique, Al Jazeera, Witness, Huffington Post, Frieze, Nowhere, Asian Geographic, The Dark Mountain Project and elsewhere. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island where she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.