Elizabeth Tallent, Professor Primary Office: 460-214 At Stanford Since: 1994 Email: tallent@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Development of the Short Story: Continuity & Innovation Degrees: B.A., Illinois State University, 1975 |
Elizabeth Tallent previously taught literature and creative writing at the University of California at Irvine, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of a novel, Museum Pieces, and three collections of short stories, In Constant Flight, Time with Children, and Honey, and a study of John Updike's fiction, Married Men and Magic Tricks. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, Grand Street, The Paris Review, and The Threepenny Review, in The Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Award collections, and is forthcoming in the Pushcart Prize Anthology 2008. In 2007 she was awarded Stanford's Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, and in 2008 she received the Northern California Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa's Excellence in Teaching Award, honoring "the extraordinary gifts, diligence, and amplitude of spirit that mark the best in teaching." |
