Elizabeth Mosier

Elizabeth Mosier is an American author and professor at Bryn Mawr College. She is best known for her books, My Life as a Girl (Random House, 2000 and The Playgroup. Mosier's work has appeared in Seventeen, Cimarron Review, Child, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Poets and Writers.^[1][2]

Biography

Mosier, who grew up in Arizona, knew she wanted to be a writer by age five.^[2] Mosier is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College,^[3] she was the acting Director of Admissions and Acting Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College^[4] and directed Bryn Mawr's summer writing program for students.^[5] She is currently a teacher of creative writing at Bryn Mawr College.^[6] Additionally, she is a part of the Young Writers Day program.^[7] Mosier volunteers as an amateur archaeologist in Philadelphia.^[8]

Work

Mosier is on the editorial board for the writing magazine, Philadelphia Stories. Her novel, The Playgroup (Gemma Media, 2011) appeared in 2011 as part of an adult literacy program.^[9] Mosier's book for young adults, My Life as a Girl is about a relationship between two young people who attend Bryn Mawr.^[10] Publishers Weekly reviewed the book and wrote that it would appeal to young adult, female readers.^[11] School Library Journal says that "Mosier writes cleanly and realistically of the young woman's need to escape-through jobs, boyfriend or college."^[12]

Mosier reflects that writing can be "lonely and frustrating and downright difficult. But at a certain point, not being a writer was, for me, the harder choice."^[13]

References

External links

• Official site