Liz studied biology in New Mexico, where you can fry an egg on the summer sidewalk (sometimes fall and winter, too). Following graduation, she fled to cooler climes and studied neuroscience at the University of Michigan (Go Blue!). Though her school spirit was minimal, she did watch the 1997 championship game at a local pub, where she was sentenced to doing pushups while singing the Michigan fight son (Hail to the Victors). After her adventures in graduate school, she worked in biomedical research, mostly doing cell culture and virology experiments.
Neuroscience deals with the structure and function of the brain and nervous system. Have you heard that joke? Being one neuron short of a synapse?
Cell culture experiments are performed in a sterile, laminar flow hood. Working in the flow hood requires wearing a short sleeve shirt. Thus, Liz was never able to wear sweaters or scarves on the job. She’s excited that now she can wear them whenever she feels like it.
After about fourteen years of science work, Liz quit research and took a less stressful job in program administration so she could focus on writing fiction. Her noir feminist novel, A Bitten Plant, forthcoming from She Writes Press in February 2027. Her single-author short-story anthology, Beware the Man That Thinks, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in October, 2028.