Elizabeth Nelson is a writer, artist, and marketing/communications professional. Her work has been published in The Raven Review, Heartland Society of Women Writers, Canyon Voices, Black Box Press, Stage Rights, and JADEN magazine, among others. Her short story collection was a finalist for the 2024 Tartts Fiction Award, and her play, 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. The Golden Hour, a two-hander set to music, was workshopped in Denver by The Athena Project’s 2018 Plays in Progress Series. Fugue, a 10-minute play, has been produced worldwide since its publishing in 2008, and The Going Price, published in the first edition of Red Bull Shorts, was selected as part of Red Bull Theatre’s inaugural new play festival in 2011. 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. Elizabeth was the original art director and managing editor for SDC Journal, a craft magazine published by Stage Directors and Choreographers Society in NYC. She has produced multiple women-focused art events in the Berkshires, including PERSIST, a visual arts show at the Daniel Arts Center; DEFY: Words in Bloom, an evening of new work at WANDER Berkshires; and Working Women Make Art at the Lenox Chamber. In addition to serving as Greylock Federal Credit Union’s Communications and Multimedia Content Producer, Elizabeth designs graphics for Project SAGE, a domestic violence prevention agency. Her passions include making paper flowers, baking, reading, caring for nearly 50 houseplants, and all things Taylor Swift. She lives in the Berkshires with her husband and two rescue pups, Harper Lee and Penelope. Elizabethnelson.net