Elizabeth Broadbent
Bewildering Stories biography
After winning the James Dickey Award for graduate student fiction three years running, I was quietly asked to stop submitting and “give someone else a chance.” Armed with an MFA, a finalist in the novel-in-progress category and semifinalist for in the novella category of the William Faulker-William Wisdom Awards in the same year, I got knocked up to avoid further graduate education.
In 2014, my essay “A Mother’s White Privilege” went viral, which scored me a gig as a staff writer at Scary Mommy. There I spent seven years working with one of the best writing teams — and amazing women — on the Internet; editors allowed me to write everything from from scathing political commentary to Murdaugh murder mysteries.
I also published in The Washington Post, Insider, and Time.com. NPR, CNN, MSNBC, and Canadian NPR interviewed me. However, my essay from on the Murdaughs, which name-checks both Faulkner and Warren Zevon, remains my favorite.
I live in Virginia with three boys who eerily resemble the kids from “Malcolm in the Middle,” three dogs, one husband, and a lot of David Bowie posters. My website lives at www.writerelizabethbroadbent.com.
My one-act play about the zombie apocalyse remains unperformed.
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