Elizabeth McKenzie
@elizabethmck.bsky.social
author of The Portable Veblen and The Dog of the North, editor at Chicago Quarterly Review and Catamaran
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Huge thanks @elizabethmck.bsky.social and @chicagoqreview.bsky.social for publishing my personal essay "The Richest Kid in the World." It's about the fall of the USSR as told through the eyes of a pre-teen, censorship, & the way end of censorship in the USSR affected different generations.
October 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Huge thanks @elizabethmck.bsky.social and @chicagoqreview.bsky.social for publishing my personal essay "The Richest Kid in the World." It's about the fall of the USSR as told through the eyes of a pre-teen, censorship, & the way end of censorship in the USSR affected different generations.
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Thank you @chicagoqreview.bsky.social and @elizabethmck.bsky.social for giving “Dead and Buried” the most wonderful home.
Fall ‘25 issue is amazing. Pick up yours today! (chicagoquarterlyreview.com)
#writingcomminity
#storysky
#booksky
Fall ‘25 issue is amazing. Pick up yours today! (chicagoquarterlyreview.com)
#writingcomminity
#storysky
#booksky
October 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Thank you @chicagoqreview.bsky.social and @elizabethmck.bsky.social for giving “Dead and Buried” the most wonderful home.
Fall ‘25 issue is amazing. Pick up yours today! (chicagoquarterlyreview.com)
#writingcomminity
#storysky
#booksky
Fall ‘25 issue is amazing. Pick up yours today! (chicagoquarterlyreview.com)
#writingcomminity
#storysky
#booksky
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Happy to receive this wonderful endorsement from the great @elizabethmck.bsky.social, author of one of my favorite novels, The Portable Veblen. When I meet someone who also loves that book, it’s like a delightful secret we share. Please read it!
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September 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Happy to receive this wonderful endorsement from the great @elizabethmck.bsky.social, author of one of my favorite novels, The Portable Veblen. When I meet someone who also loves that book, it’s like a delightful secret we share. Please read it!
@acrebooks.bsky.social
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Check out the new @catamaranlit.bsky.social with my Halloween-themed story, "A Kiss." 🎃
Many thanks to @loubeard.bsky.social & @elizabethmck.bsky.social
catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025
Many thanks to @loubeard.bsky.social & @elizabethmck.bsky.social
catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025
Catamaran Literary Reader
Catamaran Literary Reader is a quarterly literary and visual arts magazine.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Check out the new @catamaranlit.bsky.social with my Halloween-themed story, "A Kiss." 🎃
Many thanks to @loubeard.bsky.social & @elizabethmck.bsky.social
catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025
Many thanks to @loubeard.bsky.social & @elizabethmck.bsky.social
catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025
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Proud to have a new essay ("Trillium") in the latest issue of the Chicago Quarterly Review! Really honored to be included with so many incredible writers. 🙏 @chicagoqreview.bsky.social #litmags #essay #writer #nowreading #booksky
October 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Proud to have a new essay ("Trillium") in the latest issue of the Chicago Quarterly Review! Really honored to be included with so many incredible writers. 🙏 @chicagoqreview.bsky.social #litmags #essay #writer #nowreading #booksky
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✨Join us June 24th to celebrate the launch of our Summer 2025 Issue!
🎤Readings by John Briscoe, @williamwardbutler.bsky.social, @susanmgaines.bsky.social, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elizabethmck.bsky.social, @davidrompf.bsky.social, Patrice Vecchione.
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🎤Readings by John Briscoe, @williamwardbutler.bsky.social, @susanmgaines.bsky.social, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elizabethmck.bsky.social, @davidrompf.bsky.social, Patrice Vecchione.
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Summer Issue Launch Event: Cowell Ranch Historic Hay Barn — Catamaran Literary Reader
Join us in celebrating the launch of Catamaran’s 48th issue!
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June 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
✨Join us June 24th to celebrate the launch of our Summer 2025 Issue!
🎤Readings by John Briscoe, @williamwardbutler.bsky.social, @susanmgaines.bsky.social, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elizabethmck.bsky.social, @davidrompf.bsky.social, Patrice Vecchione.
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🎤Readings by John Briscoe, @williamwardbutler.bsky.social, @susanmgaines.bsky.social, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elizabethmck.bsky.social, @davidrompf.bsky.social, Patrice Vecchione.
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✨Join us June 24th to celebrate the launch of our Summer 2025 Issue!
🎤Readings by John Briscoe, @williamwardbutler.bsky.social, @susanmgaines.bsky.social, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elizabethmck.bsky.social, @davidrompf.bsky.social, Patrice Vecchione.
catamaranliteraryreader.com/events-2025/...
🎤Readings by John Briscoe, @williamwardbutler.bsky.social, @susanmgaines.bsky.social, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elizabethmck.bsky.social, @davidrompf.bsky.social, Patrice Vecchione.
catamaranliteraryreader.com/events-2025/...
Summer Issue Launch Event: Cowell Ranch Historic Hay Barn — Catamaran Literary Reader
Join us in celebrating the launch of Catamaran’s 48th issue!
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June 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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From "Henriette's Trick" by Signe Ratcliff, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"Mason sometimes pretended that Mom drove to the Hardee’s and spent the day eating hamburgers, instead of driving into Germantown, where she cut hair at the Klassy Kut..."
#fiction @signeratcliff.bsky.social
"Mason sometimes pretended that Mom drove to the Hardee’s and spent the day eating hamburgers, instead of driving into Germantown, where she cut hair at the Klassy Kut..."
#fiction @signeratcliff.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
From "Henriette's Trick" by Signe Ratcliff, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"Mason sometimes pretended that Mom drove to the Hardee’s and spent the day eating hamburgers, instead of driving into Germantown, where she cut hair at the Klassy Kut..."
#fiction @signeratcliff.bsky.social
"Mason sometimes pretended that Mom drove to the Hardee’s and spent the day eating hamburgers, instead of driving into Germantown, where she cut hair at the Klassy Kut..."
#fiction @signeratcliff.bsky.social
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From "Walking Along The Point" by Jake Young, CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"The lake is choppy today,
and clear, blue-green waves
crash against the concrete sea wall
like bottles thrown against the ground."
#poetry
"The lake is choppy today,
and clear, blue-green waves
crash against the concrete sea wall
like bottles thrown against the ground."
#poetry
May 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
From "Walking Along The Point" by Jake Young, CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"The lake is choppy today,
and clear, blue-green waves
crash against the concrete sea wall
like bottles thrown against the ground."
#poetry
"The lake is choppy today,
and clear, blue-green waves
crash against the concrete sea wall
like bottles thrown against the ground."
#poetry
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From "Mr. Hundred Hands" by Shawn Andrew Mitchell, CQR #41:
"Mr. Hundred Hands is building fifty birdhouses to attract fifty or more birdsongs to the branches and limbs of one tree." #fiction
"Mr. Hundred Hands is building fifty birdhouses to attract fifty or more birdsongs to the branches and limbs of one tree." #fiction
June 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
From "Mr. Hundred Hands" by Shawn Andrew Mitchell, CQR #41:
"Mr. Hundred Hands is building fifty birdhouses to attract fifty or more birdsongs to the branches and limbs of one tree." #fiction
"Mr. Hundred Hands is building fifty birdhouses to attract fifty or more birdsongs to the branches and limbs of one tree." #fiction
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From "A Dog's Life" by Yanan Wang, CQR #41:
"I was twenty-four years old when my family had the conversation about reincarnating Dad. We were seated around the dinner table, my mother, my grandmother, and me, shoveling stir-fried pea shoots and braised pork belly into our mouths."
#fiction
"I was twenty-four years old when my family had the conversation about reincarnating Dad. We were seated around the dinner table, my mother, my grandmother, and me, shoveling stir-fried pea shoots and braised pork belly into our mouths."
#fiction
June 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
From "A Dog's Life" by Yanan Wang, CQR #41:
"I was twenty-four years old when my family had the conversation about reincarnating Dad. We were seated around the dinner table, my mother, my grandmother, and me, shoveling stir-fried pea shoots and braised pork belly into our mouths."
#fiction
"I was twenty-four years old when my family had the conversation about reincarnating Dad. We were seated around the dinner table, my mother, my grandmother, and me, shoveling stir-fried pea shoots and braised pork belly into our mouths."
#fiction
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From "Chicken Man" by Elizabeth McKenzie, @elizabethmck.bsky.social CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"The chicken man cleans like no one else. Got his beak in everything, a tornado of order, a machine with feathers, but mostly a friend."
"The chicken man cleans like no one else. Got his beak in everything, a tornado of order, a machine with feathers, but mostly a friend."
April 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
From "Chicken Man" by Elizabeth McKenzie, @elizabethmck.bsky.social CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"The chicken man cleans like no one else. Got his beak in everything, a tornado of order, a machine with feathers, but mostly a friend."
"The chicken man cleans like no one else. Got his beak in everything, a tornado of order, a machine with feathers, but mostly a friend."
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Welcome a new magazine by Weavers Press, edited by Moazzam Sheikh and Amna Ali. Thank you for including my story A Woman of Learning in your inaugural issue.
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March 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Welcome a new magazine by Weavers Press, edited by Moazzam Sheikh and Amna Ali. Thank you for including my story A Woman of Learning in your inaugural issue.
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Announcing the release of our Spring 2025 issue!
March 13, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Announcing the release of our Spring 2025 issue!
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From "So Many Promises And So Many Lies" by S. Afzal Haider, CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"After four days and three nights in Paris, Joyce and Ved headed toward the sun-drenched south of France for four nights and three days. From the Gare de Lyon they boarded an afternoon train for Avignon."
"After four days and three nights in Paris, Joyce and Ved headed toward the sun-drenched south of France for four nights and three days. From the Gare de Lyon they boarded an afternoon train for Avignon."
March 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
From "So Many Promises And So Many Lies" by S. Afzal Haider, CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"After four days and three nights in Paris, Joyce and Ved headed toward the sun-drenched south of France for four nights and three days. From the Gare de Lyon they boarded an afternoon train for Avignon."
"After four days and three nights in Paris, Joyce and Ved headed toward the sun-drenched south of France for four nights and three days. From the Gare de Lyon they boarded an afternoon train for Avignon."
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From "2013 (Lydia Fanny Lupita) by Christina Drill, CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"That was the year we moved in across from the Lydia Fanny Lupita hair salon, in a neighborhood of Chicago far from the lake."
"That was the year we moved in across from the Lydia Fanny Lupita hair salon, in a neighborhood of Chicago far from the lake."
March 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
From "2013 (Lydia Fanny Lupita) by Christina Drill, CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"That was the year we moved in across from the Lydia Fanny Lupita hair salon, in a neighborhood of Chicago far from the lake."
"That was the year we moved in across from the Lydia Fanny Lupita hair salon, in a neighborhood of Chicago far from the lake."
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It’s here! My story “Council Rock” is out in Chicago Quarterly Review, vol. 41, available now from booksellers. Big thanks to editor Elizabeth McKenzie and the other good folks at ChicagoQuarterlyReview.com. I'm truly honored to be in such great company!
March 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It’s here! My story “Council Rock” is out in Chicago Quarterly Review, vol. 41, available now from booksellers. Big thanks to editor Elizabeth McKenzie and the other good folks at ChicagoQuarterlyReview.com. I'm truly honored to be in such great company!
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@irisdunkle.bsky.social is signing her book at 1pm at booth 926. Come by if you are at #AWP!
March 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
@irisdunkle.bsky.social is signing her book at 1pm at booth 926. Come by if you are at #AWP!
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I have a short story in the Spring issue of the @chicagoqreview.bsky.social
My thanks to @loubeard.bsky.social & @elizabethmck.bsky.social
www.chicagoquarterlyreview.com/2025/03/11/a...
My thanks to @loubeard.bsky.social & @elizabethmck.bsky.social
www.chicagoquarterlyreview.com/2025/03/11/a...
Announcing the Spring 2025 issue of the CQR!
Featuring work by: Genevieve Abravanel * Alison Braid-Fernandez * Christine Byrne * Roger Camp * William Virgil Davis * Sarah Dunphy-Lelii * Dawn Dupler * Brian Ellis * Julie Esther Fisher * Patty …
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March 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I have a short story in the Spring issue of the @chicagoqreview.bsky.social
My thanks to @loubeard.bsky.social & @elizabethmck.bsky.social
www.chicagoquarterlyreview.com/2025/03/11/a...
My thanks to @loubeard.bsky.social & @elizabethmck.bsky.social
www.chicagoquarterlyreview.com/2025/03/11/a...
My review of this unforgettable novel:
While Her Body Struggles to Stay Alive, Her Brain Writes Porn www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/b...
While Her Body Struggles to Stay Alive, Her Brain Writes Porn www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/b...
Book Review: ‘Hunchback,’ by Saou Ichikawa
Saou Ichikawa’s award-winning novel, “Hunchback,” is narrated by an heiress with a rare genetic disorder and a brilliant, cynical mind.
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March 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
My review of this unforgettable novel:
While Her Body Struggles to Stay Alive, Her Brain Writes Porn www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/b...
While Her Body Struggles to Stay Alive, Her Brain Writes Porn www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/b...
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YIV contributor Kat Meads has a new novelette that you won't want to miss!
“Kat Meads is among the most original writers of our time. While Visiting Babette is bizarre and beautiful, an exquisite literary escape into an absurd and aberrant realm.”
—Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Dog of the North
“Kat Meads is among the most original writers of our time. While Visiting Babette is bizarre and beautiful, an exquisite literary escape into an absurd and aberrant realm.”
—Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Dog of the North
February 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
YIV contributor Kat Meads has a new novelette that you won't want to miss!
“Kat Meads is among the most original writers of our time. While Visiting Babette is bizarre and beautiful, an exquisite literary escape into an absurd and aberrant realm.”
—Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Dog of the North
“Kat Meads is among the most original writers of our time. While Visiting Babette is bizarre and beautiful, an exquisite literary escape into an absurd and aberrant realm.”
—Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Dog of the North
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Thank you Litmags! I am nothing w/o you!
@karenebender.bsky.social @karenrile.bsky.social @thirdcoastmagazine.com @riverstyxmag.bsky.social @elizabethmck.bsky.social @valleyvoices.bsky.social @alliumjournal.bsky.social @grantamag.bsky.social @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social @superpresent.bsky.social
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March 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Funny literary books that I love, a random list/thread, because if we don't laugh, we cry:
1. Tenth of December (George Saunders)
2. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (Maria Semple)
3. Nothing to See Here (Kevin Wilson)
4. The Portable Veblen (Elizabeth Mckenzie)
5. Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)
1. Tenth of December (George Saunders)
2. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (Maria Semple)
3. Nothing to See Here (Kevin Wilson)
4. The Portable Veblen (Elizabeth Mckenzie)
5. Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)
January 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Funny literary books that I love, a random list/thread, because if we don't laugh, we cry:
1. Tenth of December (George Saunders)
2. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (Maria Semple)
3. Nothing to See Here (Kevin Wilson)
4. The Portable Veblen (Elizabeth Mckenzie)
5. Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)
1. Tenth of December (George Saunders)
2. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (Maria Semple)
3. Nothing to See Here (Kevin Wilson)
4. The Portable Veblen (Elizabeth Mckenzie)
5. Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)
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In honor of his birthday, the extraordinary last paragraph of Charles Portis's TRUE GRIT:
December 28, 2024 at 3:54 PM
In honor of his birthday, the extraordinary last paragraph of Charles Portis's TRUE GRIT:
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I like to lose control of language, including consistency, sometimes, as a byproduct of trying to get somewhere different and, also, better characterization. You can also edit back the chaos of that, but still gain something. Language is fluid, people are inconsistent, the world is chaotic.
December 26, 2024 at 4:12 PM
I like to lose control of language, including consistency, sometimes, as a byproduct of trying to get somewhere different and, also, better characterization. You can also edit back the chaos of that, but still gain something. Language is fluid, people are inconsistent, the world is chaotic.