Elizabeth D. Marie is a writer, editor, and teacher. She has published three novels and a collection of short stories. Her first novel, The Dying Water, was a New York Times Notable Book and was short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Prize for Writing on Social Reality
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Her second novel, The Unpossessed, won the American Library Association's Alex Award for Best Fiction for Young Adults and was named as one of Booklist's Top 10 Books for Young Adults that Year. Her latest work has just been published as Simon's Story: A Novel of Survival and Resilience. Elizabeth was born in Cleveland, Ohio and spent her early years in the state of Washington before moving to Los Angeles at age seven.
Her family later moved to northern California where she grew up until graduating from high school in Santa Cruz, California. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in English Literature she returned to her native West Coast where she worked as a writer/editor/teacher until taking early retirement to pursue writing fulltime.