Elizabeth Rosner is a best-selling novelist, poet, and essayist living in Berkeley, California. Her newest novel, ELECTRIC CITY, was published by Counterpoint Press in October 2014. Her autobiographical poetry collection, GRAVITY, was published by Atelier26 Books in October 2014. Her first novel, THE SPEED OF LIGHT, was translated into nine languages, and won several literary prizes in both the US and Europe, including the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, the Prix France Bleu Gironde, and the Great Lakes Colleges Award in Fiction. It was short-listed for the prestigious Prix Femina in 2002, and picked as the "One City One Book" choice of Peoria, IL that same year. The book was optioned by actress Gillian Anderson, who will be making the film her directorial debut. BLUE NUDE, her second novel, was named among the best books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. Its paperback edition continues to be a popular selection for book groups across the country. Rosner's essays have appeared in the NY Times Magazine, Elle, Hadassah Magazine, the Huffington Post, and numerous anthologies. She frequently writes book reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Having taught writing for over 30 years, she travels widely to lead intensive writing workshops, to lecture on contemporary literature, and to visit with book groups.