About Me

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I’m Elizabeth. I love words, I love stories, I love people/nature/history/travel, and I really love cleaning things up and making them sparkle. And I love helping people achieve their dreams.

I’ve been writing and editing for a long time. I wrote my way through college at Harvard, worked at Vogue magazine in New York (frivolous at times, but it was the ’80s, so hey), taught in China and Japan, and thrived under the mad rush of deadlines at The Christian Science Monitor newspaper and TV in Boston.

After taking time off to raise kids and get our small farm going here in North Carolina, I returned to writing and editing. I’ve helped scores of writers from all backgrounds—from newbies to experts, and lots of writers in between.

I’m eager to share my talents, opinions, and love of good writing with you and—just as important—your soon-to-be readers!

So shoot me an email and let’s talk.

Education

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Harvard
BA, History and Literature

Bennington
MFA, Creative Writing

Experience

  • Have edited books published by Crown Business/Random House/Penguin; Duke University Press; Nebraska University Press; Smithsonian; Inc. Magazine; Fast Company; Greenleaf; and many more

  • Have worked on genres including: business, leadership, memoir, women's fiction, literary fiction, self-help, psychology, theology, academic, etc.

  • Worked with many best-selling writers

  • Member of Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA)

  • Former staff writer and editor at The Christian Science Monitor

  • Currently teach writing to small groups

Writing

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  • 100+ feature stories, book reviews, essays in The Christian Science Monitor. (Also appeared in The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, syndicated by LA Times Group).

  • Essay “My Teenager, Back,” published in BrainChild magazine

  • Essay “Jogging in Japan” published in several textbooks on writing, including Prose Models (Gerald Levin, Ed., 8th edition, Harcourt Brace) and Patterns of Reflection, A Reader (Dorothy Seyler, Ed., McGraw-Hill)

  • Winner, Top 25, Glimmer Train Press Short Story Award for New Writers

  • Recipient, Elizabeth George Foundation grant for emerging writers

  • Regular guest on CNBC TV’s “The Editors” and host of “Book Talk at the Algonquin”