Current Project(s)
What is Liz working on?​
01
Ocean-Bright Passage manuscript
My third great grandfather, an Englishman in first class named Frederick Sutton, perished on April 15, 1912 after jumping off the Titanic. He was from my mother’s side of my family, and the fortune he left behind eventually sent her to college. The documentary The Six (2020) traces the story of the six Chinese sailors who survived the Titanic disaster—defying all odds as men with third class tickets—finally gave me permission to tell my interracial family’s story.
​(The film here is a short "poem trailer" for a piece originally written for the collection.)
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Query letter and first chapter sample available upon request.
02
Pockets of Bone and Rhododendron
This prose poem chapbook is still searching for its home. It includes several pieces that have been published internationally (in Opia 2.0 and Oxygen: Parables of the Pandemic).
03
Untitled bee poem project
Bee poems just keep showing up...!
04
Moravian Story Summit
Liz has co-directed the Moravian Story Summit (previously called "The Moravian Writers' Conference) every year since 2023. The conference is rebranding to be more inclusive, since storytelling doesn't only happen on the page. Find more information here.
