Liz Prato is the author of Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning; Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai‘i, a New York Times Top Summer Read and a Finalist for the Oregon Book Award; and the short story collection, Baby’s on Fire. She also edited the fiction anthology The Night, and the Rain, and the River. Her novel in stories, Purgatoire, is coming out in Spring 2026 from Forest Avenue Press.
As a Developmental Editor, Liz specializes in deep dive editing for essays, short stories, novellas and query letters.
Liz loves visiting book clubs, teaching, and speaking to groups (virtual and in-person).
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“Searching, wise, intimate and illuminating, Liz Prato’s Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege is a complicated love letter to a place, and powerful reckoning of a life. I was moved and astonished by this beautiful book. —CHERYL STRAYED, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things
"A dazzling exploration into how cultures and identities criss-cross each other, Liz Prato's KIDS IN AMERICA traces how Gen X emerged from the fire and fury of a nation falling to pieces.” —LIDIA YUKNAVITCH, author of Thrust and The Chronology of Water