Elizabeth Stuckey-French | |
Birth Place: | Little Rock, Arkansas |
Occupation: | Short story writer, novelist, fiction Writer |
Genre: | Creative fiction |
Notableworks: | "Electric Wizard," "Mudlavia," The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa, "Revenge of the Radioactive Lady" |
Spouse: | Ned Stuckey-French |
Portaldisp: | yes |
Elizabeth Stuckey-French is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor.
Stuckey-French was born in Little Rock. She grew up in the town of Lafayette, Indiana.
She graduated from Purdue University and was founding editor of the Sycamore Review.[1] She was a James A. Michener Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop; she graduated with an MFA in 1992.
Stucky-French's stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Five Points, Narr ative.[2] She teaches creative writing at Florida State University.[3]
Richard Russo, in his commentary about the selections in the 2005 O. Henry anthology, called Stuckey-French's "Mudlavia", "the one that burrowed deepest under my skin". He praised the "simplicity of its storytelling; the way its private and public stories play off each other; its fond, gentle humor; the heartbreaking, hard-won wisdom of its narrator."[4]
Stuckey-French lived in Tallahassee, Florida with her husband Ned Stuckey-French and her two daughters. Ned died of cancer in June 2019.[5]