Elizabeth Searle is the author of A Four-Sided Bed, a novel, My Body to You, a collection of stories that won the Iowa Short Fiction Prize, and Celebrities in Disgrace, a novella with short stories. Her short stories have appeared in magazines such as Ploughshares, Redbook, The Kenyon Review, Five Points, Boulevard, and Michigan Quarterly Review and in anthologies such as Lovers and American Fiction. She earned an M.A. from Brown University, where she studied with John Hawkes. A former Special Education teacher, she has taught fiction writing at Brown, Oberlin, and Emerson College. She now teaches at Stonecoast MFA. She is Vice Chair of PEN/New England. She lives with her husband and son in Arlington, Massachusetts. where she is at work on another novel.