Elise Blackwell is the author of the novels “Hunger,” “The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish” and “Grub.”
The Los Angeles Times called “Hunger” “an exquisite little book” and named it one of the best novels of 2003. The San Francisco Chronicle called it an “insightful and gripping” novel that “examines both the limitations and the possibilities of the human character.”
The Chronicle also called “Grub,” “an uproarous lampoon of the American drive for success,” adding that “Blackwell is a writer who always rewards our attention by delighting us.”
Originally from southern Louisiana, she teaches English at the University of South Carolina.
