Elizabeth Humphreys Penrose (December 30, 1960 –present) is an American Writer of poetry in the science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 genre. She is a long-standing member of one of Pittsburgh's oldest Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Workshops, Carnegie-Mellon University-based Pittsburgh Worldwrights, which was founded by Mary Soon Lee and includes Pittsburgh science fiction writers Barton Paul Levenson

Barton Paul Levenson

Barton Paul Levenson is an American Writer of science fiction, fantasy and the macabre. He is a long-standing member of one of Pittsburgh's oldest Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Workshops, Carnegie-Mellon University-based Pittsburgh Worldwrights, which includes Pittsburgh science fiction...

 and Kenneth Chiacchia

Kenneth Chiacchia

Kenneth Chiacchia is an American writer in the Fantasy and Science Fiction genre.- Biography :Chiacchia was born in Hackensack, NJ. He earned a PhD in biochemistry, at the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1991...

 among its members, see Pittsburgh#Writing. Penrose was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

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 with a Bachelor's in English and Master's in English Literature.

Biography

Penrose was born in Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington, Delaware

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 in 1960 but was brought to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...

at the age of 2 and has lived there ever since. Elizabeth Penrose is building a list of publications, including her poems in Star*Line, Wicked Hollow and Pedestal Magazine. She teaches a class in poetry reading and writing at a social service agency connected with University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers. She views herself as a Christian Socialist, Feminist, Pacifist.

Poems

• "Silence", Voices From the Attic, Anthology, Carlow University Press, Pittsburgh, PA, Expected 2011
• "Never", Voices From the Attic, Anthology, Carlow University Press, Pittsburgh PA, Expected 2011
• "A Wrong Turn", Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2010
• "The Land of the Golden Purse", Beyond Centauri, June 2010
• "Hives" Abyss & Apex Issue 27
• "To D.M. Pinkwater" Mindflights, 2008 (Out of print) mindflights.com
• "Seeing The Dragon" Mindflights, 2008 (Out of print) mindflights.com
• "A Pacifist in Wartime" The Pedestal Magazine THE POLITICAL ANTHOLOGY 2004
• "An Explanation," Wicked Hollow #7 December 2003
• "The Prince Who Killed A Dragon" EOTU Ezine Volume 4, Issue 2 ISSN: 1530-7336 April, 2003
• "A Girl's Game" Star*Line Issue 25.3, May/June 2002

Contest wins and accolades

• “Scientific Experiment 1927" Judge's Picks W. Gregory Stewart’s choices 2008 Science Fiction Poetry Association Contest Winners
• "Spring Morning" Nippon 2007 Haiku Contest