Elisabeth Murawski is the author of Zorba's Daughter, which won the May Swenson Poetry Award, Moon and Mercury, and two chapbooks. Her work has been published in The Yale Review, The Southern Review, and FIELD among others. A native of Chicago, she currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

A brave poet undaunted by the darker realities of experience, Murawski probes, with haunting insight and emotional honesty, the somber hues of a home bereft of love; an unwanted child; a sister crippled at birth; childhood and relationship abuse; and the insatiable yearning lurking at the core of universal human existence"" - Larry D. Thomas, 2008 Texas Poet Laureate