Liz Prato

Liz Prato’s most recent book, Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai‘i (Overcup Press, 2019), is an Oregon Book Award finalist. She is also the author of Baby’s on Fire: Stories (Press 53), and editor of The Night, and the Rain, and the River (Forest Avenue Press). Her work was named a Notable selection in Best American Essays and Best American Sports Writing, 2018. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Carolina Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hawai‘i Review, Salon, and Subtropics. She is Editor at Large for Forest
Avenue Press, and believes in independent bookstores, community, grace, and palm trees. She is currently working on an essay collection about Gen X.