© 2026 Elise Atchison

CRAZY MOUNTAIN

Work

BOOKS

■ CRAZY MOUNTAIN (Novel), Sowilo Press/Hidden River Arts, 2022. HIGH PLAINS BOOK AWARD, ELUDIA BOOK AWARD, MONTANA ARTS COUNCIL ARTIST GRANT, BARBARA DEMING MEMORIAL FUND ARTIST GRANT and ONE BOOK BIG SKY SELECTION.

■ Other books in progress.

ANTHOLOGIES

■ ARTIST’S FIELD GUIDE TO THE GREATER YELLOWSTONE. Katie Holsinger Ed., Trinity University Press, 2021. Includes “The Land of the Lynx” by Elise Atchison, paired with artwork by Carrie Wild.

■ UNEARTHING PARADISE: Montana Writers in Defense of Paradise. Elk River Books Press, 2016. Edited by Marc Beaudin, Seabring Davis, and Max Hjorstberg, with a foreword by Terry Tempest Williams. Includes “Trout Tears” by Elise Atchison.

■ AN ELK RIVER BOOKS READER: Livingston and Billings Area Writers. Allen Morris Jones, Ed., Bangtail Press, May, 2014. Includes “Ancient Aquifers” by Elise Atchison.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Elise Atchison’s short stories, essays and book reviews have been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Montana Quarterly, Terrain: A Journal of Built and Natural Environments, Silk Road Review, Owen Wister Review, South Dakota Review, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Deep Wild Journal, Jackson Hole Review, Wordstock Ten, Reflections West Radio, and elsewhere.

AWARDS

Elise Atchison received the High Plains Book Award, Montana Arts Council Artist Grant, Eludia Book Award, and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Artist Grant. She has been a finalist for many other awards including the Barry Lopez Nonfiction Award, Doug Fir Fiction Award, Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, David Nathan Meyerson Fiction Prize, Walker Percy Prize in Short Fiction, Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, Wordstock Short Fiction Award and others.

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“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.”

Willa Cather

“In a time of destruction, create something.”

Maxine Hong Kingston