Elizabeth Hand

TWH 2026 (Major Fiction Workshop, Fiction Craft Lab, Faculty Reading)

Elizabeth Hand is the author of twenty genre-spanning novels, five collections of short fiction and essays, half a dozen novelizations, and four original middle-grade books in the Star Wars universe, as well as being co-creator with Paul Witcover of DC Comics' groundbreaking 1990s series Anima. Her work has received multiple Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy and Nebula Awards, among other honors, and have been chosen as Notable Books by the New York Times and Washington Post. Her critically acclaimed novels featuring Cass Neary, “one of literature’s great noir anti-heroes” [Katherine Dunn] is being developed as a film, and several of her other works have been optioned for film and TV. Until its demise this year, she was a longtime reviewer for the Washington Post Book World, and has written for numerous publications, including The Guardian, New York Times Book Review, L.A. Times, Salon, the Boston Review, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Much of her work focuses on artists and performers, particularly those outside the mainstream, as well as on the impacts of climate change. For seventeen years, she was on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, and for over thirty years has led myriad writing workshops, including Clarion West, Clarion, Odyssey, the Yale Writer's Conference, Pike’s Peak Writer's Conference, The Writer’s Hotel, the Salam Writer's Workshop in Lahore, Pakistan and a futurist workshop at Wytham Abbey, Oxford, UK.  She divides her time between the Maine coast and North London. You can find her on Bluesky @elizabethhand.bsky.social and on Facebook @ElizabethHandAuthor.