Elisabeth Eaves

On graduating from the University of Washington in 1996, Eaves worked as an exotic dancer at the Lusty Lady peep show in Seattle for a year. Her experiences at the Lusty Lady are told in her book about striptease, Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power (2002). The Washington Post called the book a "first-rate, first-person work of social anthropology."[1] A paperback version of the book was released as "Bare: The Naked Truth About Stripping" in 2004.

Her second book, Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents, published in 2011, chronicles her travels around the world, including extended stays in Egypt, Pakistan, and Australia.[2] The book was called a "heady, headlong chronicle of a decade and a half spent adrift" by The New York Times Book Review.[3]

Eaves' travel writing has been commended and anthologized. In September 2005, her Slate series on flamenco in Seville won a silver award in the Society of American Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition.[4] Her Slate series "Eco-touring in Honduras" is included in The Best American Travel Writing 2009, edited by Simon Winchester.[5] Her essay "Wanderlust", first published on World Hum,[6] is included in The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010. Eaves piece in The New York Times, "In Mexico, Eco Concerns Where Sea Lions Romp," was awarded a silver Lowell Thomas Award in 2014.[7] Her original essay Seasoning Jerusalem is included in Lonely Planet's A Moveable Feast: Life-changing Food Adventures from Around the World, edited by Don George.[8] Eaves 2015 New York Times article "A Hundred Cities Within Seoul" was given an "Honorable Mention" Lowell Thomas Award.[9]

Eaves is a columnist at the tablet newspaper The Daily where she also launched and edited the opinions page. From 2006 to 2010 she worked as a writer and editor at Forbes magazine, where in 2008 and 2009 she also wrote a weekly column. She has freelanced widely, including for Slate, Foreign Policy, Harper's, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. In 2006 she was a Robert L. Bartley fellow at The Wall Street Journal. From 1999 to 2000, she worked as a journalist for Reuters in London.

Eaves is married to food writer Joe Ray.[10] In 2017, they opened a workshop for writers called Type Set in Columbia City, Seattle.[11]

Eaves received a B.A. (honors) from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and a master's degree in international affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.[10]

• 2002: Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power. (Published in paperback as Bare: The Naked Truth About Stripping) (Knopf, 2002, and Seal Press, 2004)
• 2009: Best American Travel Writing, 2009 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Mariner Books; an anthology)
• 2010: Best Women's Travel Writing, 2010 (Travelers' Tales; an anthology)
• 2011: Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents.(Seal Press)
• 2014: A Moveable Feast: Life-changing Food Adventures from Around the World. (Lonely Planet; an anthology)

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