SARASOTA, FL, October 17, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Elisabeth Stevens has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value.
Since 1956, Ms. Stevens has been regarded for her skill and insight as a critic, literary author and graphic artist. She first found success as a journalist and illustrator, contributing articles and on-the-spot, reportorial ink drawings to The New Leader and The New Republic and fiction to Mademoiselle.
As an art critic, she wrote for The Baltimore Sun, The Wall Street Journal, The Trenton Times, Art News, Art in America and, in Florida, The Sarasota Herald Tribune, Senses magazine, and Radio SQR.com.
In the 1980's, Ms. Stevens began to publish literary fiction, poetry and drama, eventually writing two novels, six collections of short stories, six volumes of poetry, a group of short plays, three limited edition, livre d'artiste collections of her signed and numbered original etchings, three catalogs of her art works and an architectural guide to Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
Her 2013 literary novel, Ride a Bright and Shiny Pony, portrayed a tragic love affair during the racial tensions of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Her 2015 literary novel, A Green Isle in the Sea, Love, returned to the conservative, seemingly-timeless 1950's, depicting a young women's struggle against conventional expectations.
Her story, "A Diner for the Dead" from her 1997 fiction collection, In Foreign Parts, inspired Phantasmagoric: The World of Elisabeth Stevens, a major 2015 retrospective of her books and art at the Fine Art Gallery of State College of Florida, Bradenton, and introduced The Sixties in Black and White: Drawings by Elisabeth Stevens, 2015, a book produced in Berlin, Germany. It was a collaboration with her daughter Laura Schleussner.
Her poetry collection, Sirens' Songs, 2011, combined 48 erotic poems and 13 etchings in a paperback chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of the one hundred best indie books of the year. Published concurrently as a livre d'artiste, Sirens' Songs was the centerpiece of her 2011 one woman exhibition at Stakenborg Fine Art, Sarasota.
Sirens' Songs and her other livres d'artiste: Eranos, 2000, and The Sufferers, 2015, are in rare book collections at Princeton University, Harvard University, Brown University, Cornell University, Stanford University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Texas at Austin, New York Public Library and are circulated by Vamp & Vamp.
Ms. Stevens received writing awards from Maryland Poetry Review, Lite Circle, Baltimore Writers Alliance, Maryland Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, A.D. Emmart Foundation, and Washington Baltimore Newspaper Guild. She was awarded creative writing fellowships from Mac Dowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Yaddo, Villa Montalvo, and Ragdale Foundation.
As a graphic artist, Ms. Stevens produced large and small metal plate etchings, linocuts and silverpoints and ink drawings often used as covers or illustrations for her books. Her graphic art has been exhibited in museums, universities and art galleries in New York, Connecticut, Maryland, District of Columbia, Florida, New Mexico, Minnesota and elsewhere.
Ms. Stevens is a member of Authors Guild, College Art Association, American Society of Graphic Artists, New York Society of Etchers, Women Contemporary Artists of Sarasota, and Sarasota Fiction Writers. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College and a Master of Arts with high honors from Columbia University. Her publisher is BrickHouse Books of Baltimore, MD.
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