about elizabeth

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Elizabeth is a writer, illustrator, musician, photographer and web developer
who lives about 60 miles northwest of New York City. Her book of poetry for children is due out next year.

I know a carpenter who says this about his work: "There are some out there who are as good. There is nobody better." He happens to be right.

He says the same about my work. Again, he happens to be right. Why are the two of us so confident? Because we are fully-involved in our work; we love what we do, and as my late father used to say: if you love what you do, you'll never "work" a day in your life.

I approach my photography, my music, my writing, my art, the same way I do poetry, and since I teach poetry to children, I'll use a quote from a five-year-old who defined a poem: 'They're a bunch of graceful words that rhyme - well, they don't have to rhyme, as long as they're beautiful.' I liked that she understood that poetry can break the so-called rules. Photography can, too.

Photography and poetry are similar arts, and I often compare photography when explaining poetry to kids. They both capture a moment in life: beautiful, or gritty, ugly, or uplifting - something the artist was arrested by enough to grab, transform, and present to the universe and say: "Here. Here is what I saw. It has meaning for me, meaning enough that I created art from it, so that it would have meaning for you, too."