A former journalist, Elizabeth spent ten years with The Washington Post SW Bureau, before teaching journalism at the University of Texas. She also taught secondary history in Austin as well as Social Studies Methods at Huston-Tillotson University and Texas State University. In the spring of 2025 Elizabeth completed an M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide studies from Gratz College. While an educator, she accepted a national award for Armenian Genocide Education, and a state-wide award from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Elizabeth writes a regular column for the Texas Social Studies/History magazine reviewing and recommending young adult literature.  Two of her completed manuscripts are now in search of a publisher: No Place for Us retells the experiences of a teenager who roams alone through Poland in World War II to avoid capture by the Nazis. Kinderszenen is a collection of stories by a young girl coming of age as the conservative 50s grow into the looser 60s. Elizabeth is the proud of mom of two adult children and spends her days shuttling between them in Austin and New York.