“In her frank, clear prose, Earley moves through multiple places and characters with startling ease, building a world at once honest and graceful.”
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// Biography
I am a queer, ex-Christian, scientist turned agnostic with magical thinking and the parent of two children co-parenting with other queer parents. I am the author of the popular Substack series, Queering Reality, with 100,000 subscribers. My debut memoir in essays, Little Deaths All in a Row, Essays on Sex And Death is available now. I am also the author of two novels: A Map of Everything, a debut finalist for the Lambda Literary Prize; and Like Wings, Your Hands (Red Hen Press), winner of the Women’s Prose Prize (judged by Aimee Bender), the American Fiction Prize for Best LGBTQ novel, and a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction by the Publishing Triangle, alongside Ocean Vuong and Jacqueline Woodson. In addition to two published works of fiction, I hold an MFA in Fiction from Antioch University-Los Angeles. My stories and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The First Line Magazine, Fugue, Hair Trigger, and Glimmer Train, among other publications. I was awarded the David Friedman Memorial Prize for Fiction and was twice a finalist for the AWP New Journals Award. I have received two Pushcart nominations and was a finalist for the 2011 Bakeless Literary Prize for Fiction. I am currently the owner of The Feminist Bookstore and president of Jaded Ibis Press, a nonprofit feminist press committed to publishing socially engaged literature.
// Author Blurbs
Aimee Bender
author of The Color Master, a New York Times Notable book“Urgent, essential, and previously untold, LIKE WINGS, YOUR HANDS offers readers a voice and perspective glaringly absent in the history of literature. Although that fact alone should be sufficient to make Elizabeth Early’s novel required reading, readers will ultimately keep turning the pages for the intimacy and innovation of this passionately necessary book.”
Gina Frangello
author of A Life in Men and Every Kind of Wanting“A helixing of the various incapacities of our bodies, LIKE WINGS, YOUR HANDS embraces the courage of yearning and the hopeful escape of dreams. Elizabeth Earley is bold and real and regretlessly political and all the things every writer strives for—and profound, absolutely profound.”
Lily Hoang
author of Changing, recipient of a PEN Open Books Award“Elizabeth Earley has written a stunningly original novel—one that breaks ground as it breaks silences, one that thrums with insight and compassion and devastating beauty. Entering LIKE WINGS, YOUR HANDS feels like entering the dream box constructed by one of its characters—it catapults us through space and time, zooming us in to the cellular level and blasting us out to the stars. I love this book with 100% of my heart.”
Gayle Brandeis
author of The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide“Like Wings, Your Hands takes us into a world that exists all around us, yet few of us even see. It’s a place of raw and heartbreaking human experience, and Elizabeth Earley has revealed its unique language: elemental, luminous, and beautiful.”