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Elisavietta Ritchie's fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, photojournalism, and translations from Russian, French, Malay and Indonesian have appeared in numerous publications including Poetry, American Scholar, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, National Geographic, New York Quarterly, JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, Confrontation, Press, New Letters, Kalliope, Nimrod, Canadian Woman Studies, Ann Arbor Review, Loch Raven Review, Innisfree, Broadkill Review, Beltway Poetry, ArLiJo, Calyx, and many others; anthologies including Sound & Sense; The 90th Anniversary Poetry Anthology, When I'm An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple; If I Had My Life To Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies; The Tie That Binds; If I Had A Hammer; Grow Old Along With Me / The Best Is Yet To Be; Generation To Generation; New to North America, Beyond Lament (poems on the Holocaust); September Eleven, Life On The Line: Selections on Words & Healing; The Use of Narratives in the Helping Professions: A Teacher's Casebook; and many others including several international anthologies from Lost Tower Books (England) and Prosopisia (India). In Haste I Write You This Note: Stories & Half-Stories, winner of the premiere Washington Writers' Publishing House Fiction Competition (2000), is now an ebook (2015). Raking The Snow won the Washington Writer's Publishing House poetry prize (1982). Flying Time: Stories & Half-Stories, her first short fiction collection, includes four PEN Syndicated Fiction winners. Tightening The Circle Over Eel Country won the Great Lakes Colleges Association's "New Writer's Prize for Best First Book of Poetry 1975-76." "Camille Pissarro's THE BATHER Speaks" won The Ledge 2011 poetry award; two poems won annual Poetry Society of America awards. Grants include a graduate teaching fellowship, American University; four DC Commission for the Arts grants; and four Virginia Center for the Creative Arts grants. Education includes: The Sorbonne, University of Paris, where she received a diploma with "Mention Très Bien" (equivalent to magna cum laude) from the Cours de Civilisation Française; Cornell University; University of California at Berkeley (combined BA in French, Russian and English); Georgetown University (Russian courses); American University (MA in French literature, minor in Russian studies); The Writer's Center; and the Toronto Martial Arts Commission.