Elizabeth Enslin's writing appears in The Gettysburg Review, Crab Orchard Review, High Desert Journal and elsewhere
and has received honorable mentions for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. She is currently finishing Sacred Threads, an ethnographic memoir on her experiences as an anthropologist and mother in Nepal. She divides her time between a house in Portland and a yurt in northeastern Oregon.---------
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