Someone should have told me, back in 1977, that medicine was far more lucrative than writing.
Elissa Minor Rust lives and works in Portland, Oregon and is proud to call herself a Northwest writer. She teaches writing and literature at Portland Community College, and publishes fiction and nonfiction in national literary magazines and anthologies. Her short story collection, The Prisoner Pear: Stories From the Lake, was published in December 2005 by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice pick. Elissa shares a home with many fabulous creatures (among them a husband, three children, two dogs, two birds, and a cat).
When she’s not writing or teaching, she’s watching old episodes of Buffy, knitting, knocking on doors for a political campaign, or playing with the latest tech gadget she somehow justified purchasing.
