Elaine Barnard

Elaine Barnard's collection of stories, The Emperor of Nuts: Intersections Across Cultures, was recently published by New Meridian Arts and noted as a unique book on the Snowflakes in a Blizzard website. Last year, she won first place in the Strands international flash fiction competition. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fiction. She was a finalist for Best of the Net. She received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine and her BA from the University of Washington, Seattle.