Elizabeth Nelson is a writer, multidisciplinary artist, and marketing-communications professional. Her fiction and poetry can be read in The Raven Review, Second Chance Lit, Rhodora Magazine, Canyon Voices, Catchwater, and others.
I Am Not A Lady was a semifinalist for the 2024 Dramatist Guild Virtual Playwriting Fellowship. Colors Inside the Body received a reading at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in NYC as part of Texas Wesleyan's 2019 Playmarket. In March 2018, The Athena Project workshopped The Golden Hour as part of its annual “Plays in Progress Series” in Denver, CO. Fugue (published under Laura Elizabeth Miller by Black Box Press) is regularly produced worldwide, and The Going Price (Steele Stage Rights) was selected in 2011 as part of Red Bull Theater’s inaugural Short New Play Festival. Stage directing credits include The Chess Lesson by Sari Caine, world premiere of Spark by Angela Santillo, Rumors, Tallgrass Gothic, Arsenic and Old Lace, Pillow Talk, and Emily.
A graduate of Texas Wesleyan University and Sarah Lawrence College, Elizabeth was the original art director and managing editor for SDC Journal, a craft magazine published by Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) in NYC. She is currently the director of marketing for 1Berkshire, the official regional tourism council for the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts where she lives with her husband, over 50 houseplants, and two rescue pups, Harper Lee and Penelope. You can find her on Substack at Waiting on Cicadas.
Photo by Tricia McCormack Photography