Elizabeth Swados

Elizabeth Swados is an award winning author and composer; she is a Tony nominated, Obie award winning theater artist, and is Guggenheim and Ford Foundation recipient as well as a Pen/Faulkner citation recipient.   Her latest book is At Play – Teaching Teenagers Theater (Faber and Faber). Her other recent publications include: My Depression (Hyperion), and The Animal Rescue Store (Scholastic).  Her theatrical credits span from Broadway, to off-Broadway, to around the world including Runaways, Missionaries, and Jabu.  Her poetry has appeared in magazines such as “Meridian Anthology”, “New American Writing”, “New York Quarterly”, “Emory’s Journal”, “Confrontation”, “Paterson Literary Review”, “Speakeasy”, “Barrow Street”, “Runes” and “Home Planet”. Her first book of poetry, The One and Only Human Galaxy, was released in 2009 and a book of non-fiction prose, Waiting, was released in 2011.

Read Elizabeth’s poetry:  

• Time change

• Poor Hudson Boy

• R-E-S-P-E-C-T

• Loud Guitar