Eliza Minot is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Tiny One and The Brambles, published by Knopf/Vintage. Knopf will publish her third novel, In The Orchard, on the day of the program.
Her work has appeared in magazines and anthologies, and her books have been named to various lists, including The New York Times Notable, Booksense 76, Nancy Pearl's, and Oprah's Top Ten Summer Picks. She went to Barnard College (’91) and received her MFA from Rutgers-Newark, where she was a Presidential Fellow, in 2017. She has taught at Rutgers-Newark, Barnard College, and NYU. She is a recipient of a New Jersey State Artist Fellowship and was on the shortlist for the £20,000 Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize.
She grew up the youngest of seven children in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. She lives in Maplewood, NJ, with her family.
Eliza will be in conversation with Susan Minot, award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. She is the author of the novels Monkeys and Evening, and wrote the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty. She currently teaches in the graduate writing program at Stony Brook University.