Elizabeth Heald
Elizabeth Heald lives in Portland, Oregon and is a founding member of Full Frontal Writing Collective. Her work has been featured in tNYpress, Jitter Press and Devilfish Review.
On your nightstand:
Three empty water glasses, a snow globe of Portland, two notepads, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, Missouri Review Spring 2013, Diary of a Wimpy Kid CD, Scaredy Squirrel children’s book, box set of Original Christmas Classics CDs, EB White’s The Trumpet of The Swan, Glimmer Train summer 2011, Katy Farris’s boysgirls, Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link, Loving Wanda Beaver by Alison Baker, The Best of McSweeneys, Complete Idiots Guide to Economics, Falling Up by Shel Silverstein, Geometry Flu by Luke Heyerman, and a Dave Eggers book with a title too long to type.
If you could spend a day with any author who would it be?
I would like to say Roald Dahl, but he died in 1990 so that might make it weird. If they have to be living, I would go with George Saunders.
What book made the biggest impression on you as a kid?
Shel Silverstein’s Where The Sidewalk Ends. My cousin gave it to me for my birthday and I wore that book out carrying it around and reading it. Where The Red Fern Grows is a close second.