Elizabeth Shack lives in central Illinois with her spouse, cat, and an expanding collection of art supplies and gardening tools. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Contemporary Haibun Online, Writers Resist, Daily Science Fiction, and other magazines and anthologies. Her nonfiction career includes marketing and technical writing, scientific copyediting, and journalism.
She attended the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop in 2022 and 2023 and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Novel Writers Workshop at the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas in 2012. She has been a community TA for ModPo, read submissions for Flash Fiction Online, and was a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.
Poetry
- “Rewilding” in The Nature of Our Times online gallery (2024)
- “Pollinator Pocket” in The Nature of Our Times online gallery (2024)
- “For my neighbor, on your knees digging violets and dandelions out of your pristine lawn” in The Nature of Our Times online gallery (2024)
- “tree : forest :: ad : internet” in Writers Resist (2024)
- “Homecoming” in Contemporary Haibun Online (2024)
- [wisdom] in Contemporary Haibun Online (2024)
- “green stalks” in The News-Gazette (2024)
- “fresh snow…” in the Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology (2024)
- “Brushstrokes” in Haven Spec Magazine (2024)
- “Haibun for the Community Garden” in Drifting Sands (2024) [pdf]
- “September Together” in Writers Resist (2023)
- “time machine…” in Failed Haiku (2023) [pdf]
- “First Chilly Day” in cattails (2023) [pdf]
- “Morning” in cattails (2022) [pdf]
- “cicada compline” in The News-Gazette (2022)
- “wild cherry” in Bluepepper (2022)
- “Love Perceived” in The MacGuffin (2020)
- “Spring” in Sleet (2020)
- “Maybe When” in Courtship of Winds (2020)
- “No Vacancy” in Writers Resist (2020)
- “The Siren Queen Sings of Silence” in Crows on the Line (2019)
Fiction
- “All That Matters” in Schoolbooks & Sorcery (2021)
- “The Vector of our Love” in Freeze Frame (2018)
- “Sticking Together” in Abyss & Apex (2015)
- “Alpaca Tricks” in Fictionvale (2014)
- “Pictures in Crayon” in Cast of Wonders (2014; podcast reprint)
- “The Girl with Flowers for Hair” in Daily Science Fiction (2013)
- “Kalar’s Wall” in Plasma Frequency (2013)
- “Pictures in Crayon” in Daily Science Fiction (2013)
- “The Breeding Pond” in The Crimson Pact: Volume Four (2012; prequel to “The Demon’s Tomb”)
- “A Talent for Death” in Shelter of Daylight (2011)
- “The Demon’s Tomb” in The Crimson Pact: Volume Two (2011)