About the Artist
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson is a writer and editor based in Baltimore who has written articles,
essays, and short fiction for The New Yorker.com, The New York Times, The Washington Post
Magazine, The Southern Review, McSweeney’s, PANK, The Little Patuxent Review, and The
Atlantic, among many others. Her writing has been recognized by Best American Essays and
nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes. In 2018, she was a National Endowment for the Arts
Creative Writing Fellow. Dickinson’s writing has been supported with fellowships and
residencies from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, the
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency, and Ragdale; and
with grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Mid
Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She was
a 2017 Rubys Artist Grant recipient and she won the 2017 Baker Artist Award for the Literary
Arts.
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Artist's Statement
From a young age, I recognized writing as my tool for examining the world. I was an inquisitive kid and writing became the infrastructure for exploring that curiosity. I write because I believe in the power of storytelling to connect us through the shared truths of human experience. Literature is an act of empathy; it is a conduit for illumination. I began my writing career in my twenties as a journalist and I've published hundreds of feature stories in magazines and newspapers. A decade into my career, I longed for new ways to tell stories. I wanted to move across genre. The power of fiction is its ability to synthesize and convey the inner terrain of the human experience. Today I make my living as a storyteller and those stories take the shape that they require, which means I am at turns a journalist, an essayist, a fiction writer. Success, to me, is a life spent stoking that innate human curiosity and being fully engaged in a dialogue with the world.
