Elizabeth Humphreys Penrose


Elizabeth Humphreys Penrose is an American writer of poetry in the science fiction genre. She is a long-standing member of one of Pittsburgh's oldest Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Workshops, Carnegie-Mellon University-based Pittsburgh Worldwrights, which was founded by Mary Soon Lee and includes Pittsburgh science fiction writers Barton Paul Levenson and Kenneth Chiacchia among its members, see Pittsburgh#Writing. Penrose was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor's in English and Master's in English Literature.

Biography

Penrose was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1960 but was brought to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of 2 and has lived there ever since. Elizabeth Penrose is building a list of publications, including her poems in Star*Line, Wicked Hollow and Pedestal Magazine. She teaches a class in poetry reading and writing at a social service agency connected with University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers. She views herself as a Christian Socialist, Feminist, Pacifist.

Poems

  • "Silence", Voices From the Attic, Anthology, Carlow University Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 2011
  • "Never", Voices From the Attic, Anthology, Carlow University Press, Pittsburgh PA, 2011
  • "A Wrong Turn", Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2010
  • "The Land of the Golden Purse", Beyond Centauri, June 2010
  • "Hives" Abyss & Apex Issue 27
  • "To D.M. Pinkwater" Mindflights, 2008 mindflights.com
  • "Seeing The Dragon" Mindflights, 2008 mindflights.com
  • "A Pacifist in Wartime" The Pedestal Magazine THE POLITICAL ANTHOLOGY 2004
  • "An Explanation," Wicked Hollow #December 7, 2003
  • "The Prince Who Killed A Dragon" EOTU Ezine Volume 4, Issue 2 April 2003
  • "A Girl's Game" Star*Line Issue 25.3, May/June 2002

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