http://www.elizabethkostova.com/
Elizabeth
Kostova was born in
Connecticut in 1964. She is the author of three novels: The Historian (Little,
Brown, 2005), The Swan Thieves (Little, Brown, 2010) and The
Shadow Land (Random House, 2017). The Historian was
the first debut novel in U.S. publishing history to have been translated into
40 languages, debut at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller
List and won Quill and Independent Bookseller Awards. The Swan Thieves was
also a New York Times Bestseller and has been translated into
28 languages. Her short fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in such
periodicals and anthologies as The Mississippi Review, Poets
& Writers Magazine, The Best American Poetry, The
Michigan Quarterly and Another Chicago Magazine.
She teaches, reads
and lectures nationally and internationally, and is co-founder of the Elizabeth
Kostova Foundation, which provides competitive opportunities for Bulgarian
writers and translators, as well as opportunities for native-English writers to
travel to Bulgaria. She also serves on the University Council of the American
University of Bulgaria in Blagoevgrad and as Vice President of the Pen &
Plate Club in North Carolina.
She has received
awards for service from the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture and the town of Sozopol.
Kostova holds a B.A. in British Studies from Yale College and an M.F.A. in
creative writing from the University of Michigan, where she won Hopwood Awards
in both fiction and nonfiction.