Elizabeth Tornes is a writer living in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. She has worked as a teacher, editor, freelance journalist and a grant writer. She has published three poetry collections, Between the Dog and the Wolf, winner of the Five Oaks Press Winter Chapbook Prize (2016), New Moon (2013), Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices Finalist, and Snowbound (Giiwedin Press, 2011), Wisconsin Fellowship of Poetry Chapbook Contest First Prize winner. Her poems have been appeared widely in many journals and anthologies, including Ariel Anthology, Blue Heron Review, bornmagazine.com, Boulevard, Bramble, Field, In the Absence of Something Specified Anthology, Illuminations, Main Street Rag, New Republic, The North American Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Up North Lit, Western Humanities Review, and Yellow Medicine Review. She earned a Ph. D in Creative Writing at the University of Utah, and has been awarded many poetry prizes and residencies at Squaw Valley Writer’s Workshop, Yaddo, and MacDowell Arts Colony. She has also published a collection of Ojibwe oral histories, Memories of Lac du Flambeau Elders (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). She has also written journalism and published in Indian Country Today and News from Indian Country.
She has worked as an Editor of Quarterly West, Assistant Editor of Gettysburg Review and Managing Editor of Western Humanities Review. She has edited several books and articles for publication, including journal articles, poetry collections, children’s books, a memoir, journalism and games.
