Liz Dolan

Liz Dolan is a wife, mother, grandmother, retired English teacher; she is most proud of the alternative school she ran in the Bronx. She has eight grandchildren who live on the next block. One, David, has Downs Syndrome; he was born when she was grieving the loss of three family members in four months, one, an infant born dead. Now she knows David came to help her heal.
          Liz has published poems, memoir and short stories in The Delaware Anthology, New Delta Review, Rattle, Harpweaver, and Natural Bridge among others. A Delaware Division of the Arts fellowship recipient and a Pushcart nominee in fiction, her work in Mudlark, Poster No. 54 (2004), Lost Children, was chosen for The Best of the Web del Sol. Recently accepted as an associate artist in residence with Sharon Olds at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, she is also on the board of Philadelphia Stories.

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