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After a long career as a writer, journalist and editor in Chicago and Washington DC, Elizabeth Black moved to Lawrence in 2007. Her column, "Back to the Center," in the Lawrence Journal-World chronicled her return to her roots. Elizabeth is the author of the novel Buffalo Spirits , which drew on her experiences growing up in western Kansas. The novel was named a finalist in the William Faulkner Novel Competition in 2002 and was awarded the 2003 Three Oaks Prize in Fiction. The novel also earned Elizabeth a three-month Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency in July 2005 in Taos, New Mexico, where she began work on a second novel. Elizabeth is currently in the research phase of a new nonfiction book, Amber Waves , which details the migration of the Russian Mennonites to the Kansas prairies in 1874.
As Outreach Coordinator for Osher Institute, Elizabeth works to establish Osher partnerships with community colleges across Kansas. She has taught two other courses for Osher: "Recovering a Lost Kansas Landscape," based on environmental themes in her novel, and "Voices of the Prairie," exploring prairie writers such as Willa Cather.
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