Liane Ellison Norman

Liane Ellison Norman was born in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, the eldest of four daughters of a Forest Service range ecologist and an elementary school teacher. She grew up in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, was educated in Iowa and Massachusetts, gave birth to the middle of three children in Kathmandu, Nepal and has lived in Pittsburgh, PA for the last 45 years. She has been a writer all her life: in the fifth grade she wrote her biography-and bound stitched-together pages in fabric-covered...See more

Liane Ellison Norman was born in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, the eldest of four daughters of a Forest Service range ecologist and an elementary school teacher. She grew up in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, was educated in Iowa and Massachusetts, gave birth to the middle of three children in Kathmandu, Nepal and has lived in Pittsburgh, PA for the last 45 years. She has been a writer all her life: in the fifth grade she wrote her biography-and bound stitched-together pages in fabric-covered boards with pasted-down end pages. Norman won the Wisteria Prize for poetry in 2006 from Paper Journey Press. She has published two earlier books of poetry, The Duration of Grief and Keep, a book about nonviolent protest against nuclear bomb parts makers, Mere Citizens: United, Civil and Disobedient, a biography, Hammer of Justice: Molly Rush and the Plowshares Eight, and Stitches in Air: A Novel About Mozart's Mother. See less