Liz Green grew up in New Jersey, which, for better or worse, she left as soon as she could drive away from it in her (grandmother’s) 1977 Chevy Impala. She spent time living in upstate New York, the high desert of New Mexico, Virginia, Alabama (War Eagle!), and Brooklyn, and has been raising her daughter in New Orleans since 2009.

Liz’s mother still feels embarrassed to recall the summer when Liz lived in a tent at the Omega Holistic Studies Institute, as an unpaid volunteer line cook. To continue to avoid spending 40 hours per week working in an office, Liz got a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. There, she won the Dr. James H. Wilson / Paul T. Nolan Creative Writing Award in Drama (2019) and her essay “Looking for Z” was nominated for the AWP Intro Journals Project.

As a past member of the Milena Theatre Group, Liz performed in “FUGUE: An Event” (2019) and “Exit, Pursued by a Statue” (2023)—for some reason, always playing annoying, slightly insane characters named “Liz.”

A former associate editor for Snow Lion Publications, a Tibetan Buddhist press (now part of Shambhala Publications), she holds a BA from Colgate University, MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and a MS from Loyola University New Orleans. Her past lives have also included: barista/writer of poems on sandwich order slips, artist’s model, bookstore and video store clerk, and inflator of balloons.

A licensed psychotherapist (LPC) and owner of Rosemary Counseling, LLC—named in memory of her grandmother, Olinda Rosemary—Liz has facilitated individual and group therapy sessions in inpatient, office, and community-based mental health settings in Louisiana and New York City with adults, children, adolescents, couples, and families. She lives adjacent to a bayou and an art museum with her daughter and Little Guy, a large, neurotic cat.