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 The MacGuffin, 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 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 read submissions for Flash Fiction Online and was a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.
Poems
- “September Together” in Writers Resist (upcoming)
- “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)
Stories
- “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)