Washington-DC-based Texas author Elizabeth Bruce's debut novel, And Silent Left the Place, won Washington Writers' Publishing House's Fiction Award and distinctions from ForeWord Magazine and Texas Institute of Letters. She's published in USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malawi, India, Yemen, and The Philippines, A co-founder of Sanctuary Theatre, her bilingual book, CentroNia's Theatrical Journey Playbook: Introducing Science to Early Learners through Guided Pretend Play, garnered four indie awards. She's received DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation Fellowships and studied with Richard Bausch, Lee K. Abbott, Janet Peery, John McNally, and Liam Callanan. Discsover more at elizabethbrucedc.com.