The Dog of the North a New York Times Editors’ Choice
The Dog of the North has been longlisted for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Elizabeth McKenzie profiled by Paul Wilner in the Nob Hill Gazette
The Portable Veblen wins the 2017 California Book Award silver medal in fiction
The Portable Veblen featured in the New York Times holiday gift guide: “Books for the Imagination, the Funny Bone, and the Intellect”
The Portable Veblen longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for fiction
The Portable Veblen shortlisted for the 2016 Baileys prize
An interview with Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm
Profile in the San Francisco Chronicle
Nancy Pearl reviews The Portable Veblen on “That Stack of Books”
The Portable Veblen an Indie Next Pick for February 2016
The Portable Veblen reviewed by Maureen Corrigan on NPR’s Fresh Air
The Portable Veblen on “Bill’s Books“–WNBC New York
Reviews of The Portable Veblen in the New York Times, Slate, The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Irish Times, KQED’s The Spine, Electric Literature, The Guardian, Flavorwire, The Rumpus
Conspicuous Rambunction: an interview in the Los Angeles Review of Books by Jennifer Bannan
The Portable Veblen to be published by 4th Estate UK, January 2016
The Portable Veblen to be published by Penguin Press, January 2016
Teaching at the Catamaran Writing Conference 2015
“Savage Breast” in The New Yorker
Teaching Short Story Writing, Winter 2015, Stanford Continuing Studies
Elizabeth McKenzie receives Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant
Teaching at the Catamaran Writers Conference at Pebble Beach
Elizabeth McKenzie named 2012 Artist Laureate, Arts Council Silicon Valley
Elizabeth McKenzie receives Gail Rich Award
Fiction in The Atlantic Monthly
Elizabeth receives Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in Artists Grant
Elizabeth McKenzie receives Japan-US Friendship Commission Creative Artist Fellowship
judge for fiction, William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
MacGregor Tells the World a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the year
MacGregor Tells the World a Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the year
MacGregor Tells The World a Best Book, School Library Journal
Alan Cheuse cites Stop That Girl in the Chicago Tribune
Stop That Girl selected for NPR’s ‘Talk of the Nation Summer Reading List’
“Paperback books of particular interest.”
—The New York Times Book Review/Paperback Row
“New in Paperback”—Washington Post Book World
Stop That Girl selected for The Best of 2005 Books—Newsday
Stop That Girl selected for The Story Prize–2005 Short List
Stop That Girl selected for School Library Journal—Best Books of 2005
A Rocky Mountain News “Great Debut” 2005
Encyclopedia Britannica Year In Review 2005–American Literature
Stop that Girl selected for The Best American Nonrequired Reading
An Amazon Breakout Books Selection
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