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Elizabeth Galoozis writes about lineage, language, and queerness. Her debut poetry collection, Law of the Letter (2025), won the regional Hillary Gravendyk Prize from Inlandia Books. An Amherst College and AWP Writer to Writer Program alumna, Elizabeth has been published widely. Learn more at http://www.elizabethgaloozis.com.

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Elizabeth Galoozis writes about lineage, language, and queerness. Her debut poetry collection, Law of the Letter (2025), won the regional Hillary Gravendyk Prize from Inlandia Books. Elizabeth’s work has appeared in RHINO, Air/Light, Sinister Wisdom, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net, and was selected by Claire Wahmanholm for AWP’s Writer to Writer Program in 2022. Elizabeth draws on her background as a librarian by using classification, indexes, and other human attempts to categorize the world, in her work. An alumna of Amherst College, she has roots in the Midwest and New England, and lives in southern California. Learn more at www.elizabethgaloozis.com and @thisamericanliz.

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Elizabeth Galoozis’s debut full-length collection, Law of the Letter, won the Hillary Gravendyk Prize from the Inlandia Institute. She writes about lineage, language, and queerness, and draws on her background as a librarian by using classification, indexes, and other human attempts to categorize the world. Elizabeth’s work has appeared in RHINO, Air/Light, Sinister Wisdom, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net, and was selected by Claire Wahmanholm for AWP’s Writer to Writer Program in 2022.

An engaged literary citizen, Elizabeth is a poetry reader at The Maine Review and a member of the Workshops Committee for Women Who Submit. She has presented and published widely in the field of library and information science, particularly in the areas of equity, inclusion, and pedagogy, and has co-edited two books for the Association of College and Research Libraries. An alumna of Amherst College, she has roots in the Midwest and New England, and lives in southern California, on unceded Tongva and Kizh territory, with her wife Michelle and an abundance of fruit trees. Learn more at www.elizabethgaloozis.com and @thisamericanliz.