Elizabeth Rush

Elizabeth Rush is the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shorea finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: Essays and Photographs from Yangon, Myanmar. Rush is the recipient of fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Geographic, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Howard Foundation and others. She teaches at Brown University and is currently at work on a book about motherhood and Antarctica’s diminishing glaciers.