Elise Blackwell
Biography
Elise Blackwell
Elise Blackwell, author of Hunger, has worked as a journalist, instructor, freelance writer, and translator. Originally from southern Louisiana, she lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband and daughter. In the fall (2003), she will join the creative writing faculty of Boise State University.
Some of her current favorite books are Albert Camus's The Plague, Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter, Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, and John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle Killing. She also reads a lot of twentieth-century poetry as well as short stories by southern writers. Her other interests include travel and music.
Elise Blackwell
