Liz Prato Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

“Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning (June 2022)

“Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawaiʻi” (2019) Finalist for the Oregon Book Award“Searching, wise, intimate and illuminating, Liz Prato’s Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privilege is a complicated love letter to a place and powerful reckoning of a life. I was moved and astonished by this beautiful book.” – Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild“This book is a love letter to the land and people of Hawai‘i, a secular devotional to a place that has woven its way into Liz Prato’s heart. Breathtaking.” – Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and The Book of Joan“A brilliant meditation on cheeseburgers in paradise, Liz Prato’s fearless and tender investigation of our complex relationship with Hawai‘i will blow your mind. Hula dancers, aloha shirts, surfing, and the idyllic tropical vacation will never look the same.” – Karen Karbo, author of In Praise of Difficult Women, and the Kick Ass Women series “For fans of Sarah Vowell and Kaui Hart Hemmings, Liz Prato's essay collection is a must-read that explores the islands’ mythos and reality. In Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege we witness a deeply personal tale of love, loss, and honest accounting as the author comes to understand her relationship with the islands through the crucible of family.” – Kristiana Kahakauwila, author of This Is Paradise"Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege is not only a breezy and appealing primer on how to negotiate both Hawai’i in all its astonishing variety and the enormous advantages and nagging burdens of privilege; it’s also a moving memoir about familial loss and the reconstitution of an essential version of the self. Liz Prato is beautifully smart about how disempowerment works, and how to combat it." - Jim Shepard, author of Like You'd Understand Anyway and The Tunnel at the End of the Light

"Baby's on Fire: Stories"​“Liz Prato’s stories are filled with the lost, the lonely, and the damned, and she makes all of them sing with a haunting grandeur. Baby's on Fire is a lamentation brimming with wit, candor, and the eternal possibility of mercy.”—Steve Almond, Against Football: A Manifesto“Liz Prato’s characters blaze with humanity, sensuality, and hope. Her writing glitters and her stories push us to the edge: Prato rubs her people together until they spark, in a book that throbs with heart—and grips our own.”—Dylan Landis, author of Rainey Royal

In Portland And Beyond

DEEP DIVE EDITING: IT’S MORE THAN FEEDBACK—IT’S A PRIVATE MASTER CLASS My combination of developmental and line editing will help bring out the best in your short stories, creative nonfiction essays, novellas and query letters. Over several in-depth reads, I identify:What is your work’s main concerns?What is the voice?Does the structure, narrative stance, and pacing serve the story YOU want to tell? You’ll receive constructive feedback on the global level of structure, plot, characters, narrative stance and voice, as well as the micro level of sentences and language. I’ll provide you with a comprehensive summary letter, and numerous helpful comments on your pages, and am happy to answer follow-up questions and continue the conversation about your work.

I love talking to groups about the craft and business of creative writing! I've taught workshops and presented lectures at numerous conferences, colleges and literary centers, including:Portland Book Festival * The Attic Institute, Portland * The Muse & the Marketplace, Boston * Lighthouse Writers, Denver * Writers Center, Baltimore * Mount Hood Community College * Clackamas Community College * Terroir Creative Writing Festival * Willamette Writers, Portland & Oregon Coast Chapters * Corporeal Writing, Portland * South Coast Writers Conference, Gold Beach * Write on the Sound, Everett, WA

Portland, Oregon

“I love this book like I love the ocean. The Night, and the Rain, and the River gets under your skin and travels your body from the first page." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan, and The Misfits Manifesto“The stories in The Night, and the Rain, and the River will make you gasp and grow your heart, offering up a bright light in our often overcast skies.” —Natalie Serber, author of Shout Her Lovely Name

Fiction & Creative Nonfiction in: River Teeth * Carolina Quarterly * Sport Literate * Baltimore Review * Hawaiʻi Pacific Review * Stirring * Hippocampus Magazine* * Hawaiʻi Review * The Butter * NAILED * Summerset Review * Carve Magazine * The Rumpus * Hayden's Ferry Review * Hunger Mountain * Minnetonka Review * Los Angeles Review * Vestal Review * Salon.com * Who's Your Mama? (Soft Skull Press) * Iron Horse Literary Review (Pushcart Nomination) * VoiceCatcher 4 * Juked * Subtropics * Cream City Review * Storyglossia * Getrude * Contrary * High Desert Journal * Berkeley Fiction Review ZYZZYVA * Massage & Bodywork Magazine *

Portland, Oregon

Teaching workshops in Short Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, plus various craft & publishing seminars.

B.A. With Honors, History, Gender Studies

Cmt, Massage And Healing Arts

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Does anyone really care about my high school activities?