Elizabeth Mosier is the author of the novel, My Life As a Girl , as well as numerous short stories, articles, essays, and reviews, which have appeared in Child, Seventeen , T he Philadelphia Inquirer and Poets and Writers. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she has twice been named a Discipline Winner by the Pew Fellowships in the Arts and has received a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and two children, and teaches creative writing at Bryn Mawr College.