Literary Revelations Presents: Portrait of a Writer – Elizabeth Gauffreau

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Dear Followers and Subcribers

Literary Revelations is thrilled to let you know that we are starting a new series entitled Portrait of a Writer. Today it’s our pleasure to feature Elizabeth Gauffreau.

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Bio

Elizabeth Gauffreau writes fiction and poetry with a strong connection to family and place. Her work has been widely published in literary magazines, as well as several themed anthologies. Her short story “Henrietta’s Saving Grace” was awarded the 2022 Ben Nyberg prize for fiction by Choeofpleirn Press.

She has published two photopoetry collections, Grief Songs: Poems of Love & Remembrance, and Simple Pleasures: Haiku from the Place Just Right. She has also published two novels, Telling Sonny: The Story of a Girl Who Loved the Vaudeville Show and The Weight of Snow and Regret, based on the closing of the last poor farm in Vermont in 1968.

Liz’s professional background is in nontraditional higher education, including academic advising, classroom and online teaching, curriculum development, and program administration. She received the Granite State College Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2018. Liz lives in Nottingham, New Hampshire with her husband.

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Links to books:

Simple Pleasures: Haiku from the Place Just Right https://Books2Read.com/SimplePleasures

Grief Songs: Poems of Love and Remembrance https://Books2Read.com/GriefSongs

Telling Sonny: The Story of a Girl Who Loved the Vaudeville Show https://Books2Read.com/TellingSonny

The Weight of Snow and Regret https://Books2Read.com/WeightofSnow

Social Media: https://linktr.ee/egauff

What inspires you?

I’m inspired by so many things! Nature, family, memory, conversations, others people’s blog posts, other people’s poetry, newspaper articles, abandoned houses, historical events, music—and the list goes on. If I had to sum it all up, I would say that my inspiration for writing both poetry and fiction is curiosity. I wonder why. I wonder how. What if.

Why poetry?

I was trained as a short story writer in college and graduate school, so, to a certain extent, I’m a fiction writer in poet’s clothing. That aside, I believe that writing involves a series of decisions, the first—and probably most important—is determining which form of expression best aligns with what I want to express. I choose poetry when I want to capture a moment in time and enable a reader to enter that moment and derive meaning from it.

Future Writing Plans?

I am absolutely miserable when I don’t write, so I plan to keep writing poetry and fiction as long as I still have all my faculties. My next project is a collection of short stories set in the town where I grew up, Enosburg Stories. The stories have all been written, with about half having been published in various literary magazines, so I have a good head start.

When I first started to write fiction, right after high school, I aspired to be the Sherwood Anderson of Enosburg Falls, Vermont. To the best of my knowledge, that title has not yet been claimed by another writer!

I have another tanka photopoetry collection in the works, with a working title of Childhood Vagaries: Poems Outside the Frame. I also have a novel-in-stories planned. After that, I have more completed poetry and short stories to compile into collections. And of course I’ll continue to write new work. Recently, I’ve been on a poetry run.

Favorite poets and/or novelists?

Currently, my favorite poets are Ada Limon, Billy Collins, George Franklin, DeWitt Henry, Robb Fillman, and Patricia Smith. For fiction, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and Raymond Carver are my favorite authors because they’re the ones who have had the biggest influence on my development as a writer.

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Gabriela Marie Milton
Author, founder, editor in chief of Literary Revelations

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Our Awards

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OUR BOOKS

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1. Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony and Power in Japanese Art
2. Fine art Photography: Lullscapes in Light and Shadow
3. Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku 
4. Celebrating Poetry by Cindy Georgakas 
5. Full Moon Confessions: Poetry by Tracey Anne
6. Petals of Haiku: An Anthology 
7. Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry Anthology
8. Echoes Lost in Stars: Poems by PS Conway
9. Love, Stars, and Paradigms: Poems by Swarn Gill
10. Building Sandcastles by C.X. Turner and James Welsh  
11. Greenlandos by Virginia Witch

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Announcement: We are still going through the submissions to Haiku for Soulmates. Once the selection is ready we will send everyone who submitted an email. Thank you for your patience,

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