Elizabeth RushElizabeth Rush is the author of The Quickening and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Rush’s work has appeared in a wide range of publications from the New York Times> to Orion and Guernica. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Howard Foundation among others. She splits her time between Bogota, Colombia and Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University. Read More Read Less