Name Elizabeth Mosier Role Author | ||
Books The Playgroup, My Life as a Girl | ||
Author Elizabeth Mosier at Radnor Memorial Library
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.
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Biography
Mosier, who grew up in Arizona, knew she wanted to be a writer by age five. Mosier is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she was the acting Director of Admissions and Acting Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College and directed Bryn Mawr's summer writing program for students. She is currently a teacher of creative writing at Bryn Mawr College. Additionally, she is a part of the Young Writers Day program. Mosier volunteers as an amateur archaeologist in Philadelphia.
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. Mosier's book for young adults, My Life as a Girl is about a relationship between two young people who attend Bryn Mawr. Publishers Weekly reviewed the book and wrote that it would appeal to young adult, female readers. School Library Journal says that "Mosier writes cleanly and realistically of the young woman's need to escape-through jobs, boyfriend or college."
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."