Elizabeth Block was born in Detroit, MI, and lives in San Francisco,
CA. She has been writing most of her life, and she is also a
filmmaker. Since 1985, she has received numerous awards and grants for
her writing in three genres (poetry, fiction, essay writing). Her
novel, A Gesture through Time was written under fiscal sponsorship of
Intersection for the Arts; it was short-listed with an honorable
mention for the 2004 Starcherone Fiction Prize; it was selected as a
1998 Heekin Foundation first national novel competition finalist; and
it was the recipient of a Djerassi Resident Artists Program Tread of
Angels Fellowship. She was also recently awarded a 2005 Mills
residency fellowship to the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her writing has
been published in a variety of journals, it has been broadcast on the
radio, and it has been performed on stage. Canyon Cinema distributes
her short experimental films Make Haste, Slowly and
Strewnpackedcinderwhateverlight, which have been internationally
exhibited. She is currently finishing up a book length poetry
manuscript, with accompanying short hand-made 16mm films where she inks
poetry directly onto celluloid. She was educated at Bard College, the
University of Michigan, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and
the California College of the Arts.