LIFE: 

Born in Rome, NY, Elisabeth Goss Stevens now lives and works in Sarasota, FL, where she writes fiction, poetry and drama, plus art, film and book reviews. Seven of her previously published books are now being distributed by Syracuse University Press. Currently, she is a contributing arts writer for Sarasota's Arts and Culture magazine. She also broadcasts film and drama reviews on RadioSRQ.com.

Stevens also creates and exhibits etchings, linocuts, ink drawings, silverpoints and other graphics. Her large copper plate etchings will be displayed at the Art Center Sarasota from May 20th - July 26th, 2008

Stevens is the author of ten published books: six works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and an architectural guide. She is also a former art and architecture critic of The Baltimore Sun and a former art critic of The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Trenton Times. She has written articles for magazines ranging from Art News, Art In America, The New Republic, Life, The New Leader and The New York Times Sunday Magazine to The Atlantic, Mademoiselle, The Antietam Review and Confrontation.

Her graphics have been featured in several one person shows in Sarasota, Baltimore and upstate New York and included in group exhibitions in New York City, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Her cover drawings, spot drawings and illustrations have appeared in a variety of periodicals.

A graduate of Wellesley College, she holds a M.A. with High Honors in Modern Literature from Columbia University. She has also studied at The Art Students League, The New School for Social Research, New York University, The Princeton NJ Art Association and Sarasota's Ringling School of Art and Design.

As a writer, artist and critic, Stevens has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Ragdale Foundation, Villa Montalvo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Yaddo.

Stevens is donating all of her personal papers to the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, RI. Certain etchings and writings may also be found in the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art, Cornell University, Harvard University, Hamilton College, The New York Public Library at 42nd Street, Princeton University, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The University of Texas at Austin and Wellesley College.

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