Elisabeth Murawski, like the Tang dynasty poet Han-Shan whom she deeply admires, divides her time between a government job and writing poetry. She finds it amusing that Han-Shan wrote until Im old Ill go on checking census figures, because she has worked as a training specialist for the United States Census Bureau since 1977.

A native of Chicago, she is a graduate of De Paul University (B.A., 1957). Her work has appeared in numerous literary quarterlies and journals, including American Poetry Review, Grand Street, The Literary Review, The Ohio Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and others.

She has received two grants for her writing from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. She currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia.