Elyse Durham is a fiction writer from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming in The Cimarron Review, The Cincinnati Review, IMAGE, and elsewhere. She has received support from AWP, the Collegeville Institute, and the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo and has held residencies at the Glen Arbor Arts Center and The Mount, the home of Edith Wharton. In 2020, she was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize for Emerging Writers. In 2021, she was awarded a grant by the
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Elyse Durham is a fiction writer from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming in The Cimarron Review, The Cincinnati Review, IMAGE, and elsewhere. She has received support from AWP, the Collegeville Institute, and the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo and has held residencies at the Glen Arbor Arts Center and The Mount, the home of Edith Wharton. In 2020, she was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize for Emerging Writers. In 2021, she was awarded a grant by the Elizabeth George Foundation in support of her novel-in-progress, Motherland. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Select short fiction:
“The Jordan Turned Its Back and Fled,” Image, 2021
“Lulu,” The LEON Literary Review, 2020
“The Canadian,” The Cincinnati Review, 2019
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