Elizabeth Burton grew up on a farm in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky, where she learned to love every kind of animal imaginable. She received her BA from Morehead State University and holds MA degrees in English from the University of Texas at Austin and linguistics from Stony Brook University. She received her MFA from the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University.

Her fiction has appeared in several anthologies, most notably Flash Fiction for Flash Memory, a project designed to help individuals with memory loss continue to enjoy fiction, and Crossing Class: The Invisible Wall. She has work in numerous online and print literary journals and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for her stories, “The Birds and the Wind” (Roanoke Review), “Creakings,” (Chautauqua), and “Promiscuous” (FlashBack Fiction). She has also been nominated for the Best of the Net anthology and Best Microfictions anthology.

Elizabeth’s flash memoirs have appeared in the noted online journals Split Lip Magazine, JMWW, and Bending Genres. Her poetry has been published in Still: The Journal. She has been the recipient of two Artist Enrichment grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and has been awarded two residencies from the Foundation, as well. 

She lives in far Western Kentucky, where she teaches at a rural community college. She shares her life with her husband and two horses, three dogs, and five cats, plus whatever creatures wander into the barn needing help.