Elisabeth Murawski is a native of Chicago currently living in Alexandria, Virginia. She is a graduate of DePaul University and the MFA program at George Mason University. Her poetry collections are Alias Irene (Fernwood Press, 2026), Heiress (Texas Review Press, 2018), Zorba's Daughter (Utah State University Press, 2010; May Swenson Poetry Award), and Moon and Mercury (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 1990). Her three chapbooks are Still Life with Timex (Texas Review Press, 2021; the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize), Out-Patients (Serving House Books, 2010), and Troubled by an Angel (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1997). Poet C. K. Williams, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, said the following about her work: "Gently and insistently Elisabeth Murawski's work probes the wounds at the interstices of knowledge and experience. From the sadness of domestic love and tragedy to the exaltations of consciously being in history, to the most subdued cry of disappointment towards a God, there's a rigor and a spirit in her poems, both moving and gratifying."