Elizabeth Creel

Liz Creel is a fiction writer from Northern Virginia. Over the course of her career, she has worked to save the ozone layer and to find community-led solutions to addressing Ebola. Now she is working on a collection of short stories entitled Habitat. The stories move across a range of environments in the United States and beyond. They follow animals and other living things through their interactions with their surroundings. They also follow people and reflect on how they interact with the animals and their shared habitats.

Precious

When I walked into my grandmother’s room at the retirement community, she asked, “Did it survive?”
It was the first time I’d heard her speak in person since I’d been in Indonesia for six months. She had recently been transferred to the memory care unit.