Schaffzin is a recipient of the Calvino Prize for fabulist fiction and a Key West Literary Seminar writing residency, and her story “Seesaw<\/a>” was selected as the second-place winner of the Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction. Her tiny collection of tiny tales, Born and raised in the extraordinary city of Philadelphia, she earned a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University and an MFA from the University of Florida. She has taught writing at Harvard University and the Rhode Island School of Design.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n 2026 News:<\/p>\n Grateful to have been awarded a Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Grant in support of my work on Don’t Mean A Thing<\/em>, a narrative experiment that traces Fibonacci spirals through patterns in storytelling and in nature, traveling along arcs of extinction and imagination. (It also has something to do with Charlotte Bront\u00eb.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In addition to piecing together a few slim collections of her short fictions, Eliezra (pronounced Ellie-Ezra) Schaffzin (starts with sh, often heard as “Jackson”) is at work on several longer literary projects. The current preoccupation is a novel about … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3156-225x300.jpeg\")
<\/a>Tiny Creatures<\/em>, published in July 2024 by Ethel Zine & Micro Press, was named a finalist in both the Masters Review Chapbook Open<\/a> (selected by author Matt Bell<\/a>) and the New Rivers Press Chapbook Contest, and one of its tiny stories (“Triptych: Little Deities”) was selected as the 2022 winner of the Los Angeles Review Award for Flash Fiction. Another of the collection’s stories, this one about a tiny tardigrade, was chosen as a finalist for the inaugural SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction, and Schaffzin was invited to guest edit at SmokeLong shortly afterward; you can read the Guest Editor interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/miami-dade_logo_color-300x137.jpg\"){kind=logo}
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<\/a>Excited to be headed to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, joining a community of 22 writers, visual artists, and composers for a residency this spring! (The Center’s handbook boasts of the additional presence of Mt. San Angelo’s bovine residents but warns VCCA Fellows to stay away from the red bull, Trilogy.) \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n