• Eliese Colette Goldbach John Carroll
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Eliese Colette Goldbach is a steelworker at the ArcelorMittal Cleveland Temper Mill. She received an MFA in nonfiction from the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Western Humanities Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Best American Essays 2017. Eliese Goldbach didn’t start out with “steel-mill worker” as a life-goal. Growing up in Cleveland, in the 1990s, she wanted to be a nun. Goldbach reassessed that career choice, and many. Eliese Goldbach, a promising student finds herself adrift after completing her schooling. At 26 she’s just getting by painting houses, when her friend suggests she apply for a job at the steel mill; a place that has loomed large over her entire childhood. Soon the mill & all it’s many workers start to fill a void in her life. I saw Eliese Goldbach being interviewed on CBS about her new book. While I currently live in Florida, I was intrigued by the subject matter as I spent most of my adult life in a suburb of Cleveland. Eliese Colette Goldbach is a steelworker at the ArcelorMittal Cleveland Temper Mill. She received an MFA in nonfiction from the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Western Humanities Review, Alaska Quarterly.

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