Elizabeth Geoghegan was born in New York, raised in the Midwest, and has spent the last two decades living in Rome. She received her MFA in Fiction from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and her MA in Creative Writing from The University of Colorado at Boulder where renowned writer Lucia Berlin was her mentor. Geoghegan is the author of the story collection eightball, and the best-selling flash memoir The Marco Chronicles. Her writing has appeared in anthologies, magazines, and literary journals such as The Paris Review, TIME, The Best Travel Writing. El Pais, Words Without Borders, BOMB, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.