Dates

• Existence: 1953-

Biography

Elayne Zalis, writer and multimedia artist, was born in Miami, Florida, in 1953. She received her BA in 1975 from the University of Florida in Gainesville, and studied library science at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1976. After receiving her MA in journalism and scriptwriting at the University of Florida in 1983, Zalis enrolled at the University of Iowa, where she worked with the Special Collections Department of the University of Iowa Libraries on its Artists Television Project. In 1993, she completed her PhD at the University of Iowa in Interdisciplinary Studies, with a focus on humanities and the media arts. She then completed two novels, the first of which developed from her doctoral dissertation, "Reconfiguring Autobiographical Scenes: Intermedia Convergences and Women´s Texts." Zalis moved to southern California, and in 2005 she earned a certificate from the Advanced Oral History Summer Institute at the University of California in Berkeley.

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