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Elizabeth Searle

Elizabeth Searle is the author of six books of fiction– most recently The Drama Room: A Collection in Three Acts– and the co-author of a Feature Film, I’ll Show You Mine (Duplass Brothers Productions). The film was released in select theaters and is widely available on home screens via AmazonPrime, Peacock and more. Elizabeth’s novel, We Got Him, was a finalist for the Midwest Book Award and her previous books include A Four-Sided Bed, nominated for an ALA Book Award, and My Body to You, Iowa Short Fiction Prize winner. Her books Celebrities in Disgrace and A Four-Sided Bed are the basis of short films and her film scripts have won multiple awards. Her feature film and her theater work Tonya & Nancy: the Rock Opera have drawn national media attention.

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By Elizabeth Searle

Lock Her Up

by Elizabeth Searle

Perp-Walk Prologue I was a good girl. Before I went viral, before anyone chanted about locking me up or threatened me with death (at first only online), I never expected to be arrested. When I first got handcuffed, I couldn’t stop crying. Wondering: how can this be happening to me? A hard-working scholarship kid; a

Spring 2025

The Ones Who Are Gone

by Elizabeth Searle

This piece is part of our Winter 2023 print issue, available for purchase here.

Winter 2023 Print Issue

Interview with Ann Harleman

by Elizabeth Searle

This piece is part of our Winter 2022 print issue, available for purchase here.

Winter 2022 Print Issue

The Drama Room

by Elizabeth Searle

Former Fantasticks At silent 6AM, by the dawn’s early laptop light, I find them again: our stars. Onscreen, online– two fellow Thespians; two former Fantasticks. Blasts from my past. A boy and girl, then. And see, I’d loved, in my tortured teen way, both of them. I feel my fingers shake. Even now, in

Winter 2021

ACT TRESSES: Hair as Performance Art

by Elizabeth Searle

JACKIE KENNEDY & AUDREY HEPBURN My family moved a lot. I was the perpetual new girl: a skinny late-bloomer with buckteeth decked by metal braces. I found refuge in elaborate pretend games I played with my sister till I was well into my teens, and in old movies we watched with Mom. I was fascinated

Summer 2015

THE QUIET CAR

by Elizabeth Searle

“Ma’am? You may have to leave.”
The deep Godlike voice from the train’s loudspeaker, only live. Anne stiffens in her seat in the Quiet Car.

Spring 2014

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