Elizabeth Warren (writer)

Elizabeth Warren was described by Canadian Fiction as one of 'today's best new and emerging writers'. Her short stories have appeared in literary journals in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Sometimes using the nom de plume Emmy Wildfield, her work has been published in Ascent, Aspirations, BRAND, Canadian Fiction, lichen literary journal, Modern Haiku, Other Voices, Quality Women's Fiction, 13th Moon and the Wascana Review. In 2002 she was a quarter finalist in the New Century Writer Awards. Her plays have been performed as part of the University of Toronto Drama Fest and What's Playing at the ROXY.

Warren also writes poetry and uses the haiku form. Her haiku poems have won international awards, been published in anthologies and performed in Canada and Japan . Her haiku was recognized by Hawaii Education Association's International Haiku Writing Contests in 2003 and 2000, received the British Haiku Society James W. Hackett Award in 1996, and was acclaimed by the Herb Barrett Award in 1996, the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition in 1996 and the Haiku Splash Competition in 1996.

Warren has also written non-fiction articles for industry magazines and the Financial Post.

Warren had a successful career working in the fashion industry in Paris, for Sotheby's auction house in London and in the securities market on Bay Street before moving to Owen Sound, Canada to finish her novel.

A graduate of Carleton University, Elizabeth has a postgraduate certificate in creative writing from Humber College.