LIZ PRATO

WRITER

EDITOR

GEN X

LIZ PRATO is the author of Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning (SFWP); Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai‘i (Overcup Press), a New York Times Top Summer Travel Read, and a Finalist for the Oregon Book Award; and the short story collection, Baby's on Fire (Press 53). Her novel in stories, Purgatoire, is forthcoming from Forest Avenue Press in Spring 2026.

Liz’s stories and essays have appeared in dozens of literary journals and magazines, and have been chosen as Notable Works in Best American Essays and Best American Sports Writing/

She has been teaching at workshops and literary festivals from coast-to-coast since 2008. Liz is Editor at Large for Forest Avenue Press.

Liz was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference, and attended the Tin House Writers Conference six times. In addition to teaching at Portland’s Attic Writers Workshop, Liz has taught at The Muse and the Marketplace in Boston, Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, The South Coast Writers Conference in Oregon, Write on the Sound in Washington, Willamette Writers, Wordstock, and Corporeal Writing in Portland, to name a few.

Liz grew up in Denver, and now lives with her furry feline friends and her best friend/husband, who is a bookseller, musician, and writer in Portland, Oregon. She lives for small presses, indie bookstores, community, and palm trees.