Elizabeth Damewood Gaucher is a writer living with her husband and young daughter in Virginia.

Growing up in Charleston, West Virginia, meant town and country storytelling all of the time. Her mother’s father was one of ten children, born to a coal miner in the New River Gorge. Her father’s mother mowed the grass in high heels on Virginia Street  in Charleston into her nineties, having been a young adult cutting more than few rugs in the Roaring Twenties. It was, as they say, always on.

Gaucher’s essay, “Farm Dogs,” received a Judge’s Choice award in 2014 from Silas House’s literary journal, Still. Her published work appears in books by Westminster John Knox Press, Seventh Star Press, and Visibility Press; and various online essays and op-eds appear on River Teeth, The Revivalist: Word from the Appalachian South, Essays on Childhood, Esse Diem, Haven, and The Charleston Gazette.

Gaucher earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from WV Wesleyan College. She reads, writes, edits, creates, and dreams of her publication date in the New York Times. Or of an appearance on stage at Buckhannon’s Beer and Bards Reading Series. Either would be highly satisfying.

You can find her via @ElizGaucher on Twitter.