The Albany Public Library Foundation is pleased to announce Elisa Albert as our 2020 Literary Legend honoree who will be recognized at our 7th annual Literary Legends Gala on Saturday, October 17, 2020.
Albert is the author of the novels After Birth and The Book of Dahlia, the short story collection How This Night Is Different, and editor of the anthology Freud’s Blind Spot. She is also working on a new novel.
Albert lives in Albany, New York with her husband, Edward Schwarzschild, an associate professor of English at the University at Albany, and their 11-year-old son.
Albert grew up in Los Angeles and received an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Lini Mazumdar Fellow. She has taught creative writing at Columbia’s School of the Arts, The College of Saint Rose, and is currently writer-in-residence at Bennington College.
She received the Moment magazine Emerging Writer award in 2006. Albert has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Djerassi, Vermont Studio Center, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Holland, the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Germany, and the Amsterdam Writer’s Residency. Albert was a visiting faculty member at Bennington for Fall 2016, Fall 2017, and Spring 2019.
Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, The New York Times, Post Road, The Guardian, Gulf Coast, Commentary, Salon, Tablet, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, The Rumpus, Time Magazine, on NPR, and in many anthologies.
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