Liz Axelrod received her MFA from The New School in 2013. She was a Riggio Honors Scholar, Managing Editor of the AWP Award Winning 12th Street Journal, Editor in Chief of 12th Street Online, and Web Editor & Poetry Reader for LIT Magazine. Liz has been making the rounds of the NYC Poetry Circuit for over a decade and has been a featured poet at the Phoenix Reading Series, NYC Poetry Festival at Governors Island, Cornelia Street Graduate Reading Series, Southern Writer’s Series, Renegade Reading Series, Couplet, The Living Room’s Stories & Songs Residency, and many more. Liz met her husband in the New School Creative Writing Program. After coming out as transgender during the pandemic, her husband, Jamie is now her wife. They are both passionate writers, professors and activists.
Her work has been published in the Cat Oars Fiction Collective, Three Rooms Press Maintenant Journal 14, 15, 16 & 17, The Rumpus, The Brooklyn Rail, Electric Literature, Yes Poetry, Nap Magazine, Wicked Alice by Dancing Girl Press, the Ginosko Literary Journal 14, Counterpunch.com and many more. Her chapbook “Go Ask Alice” was chosen as a 5th Place Finalist in the Finishing Line Press New Woman’s Voices Competition and was published by Finishing Line Press in June, 2016. Her book reviews have appeared in Publisher’s Weekly, Boog City Press, The Brooklyn Rail, and Kirkus Reviews. She was a staff writer for LunaLuna Magazine, and Founder, Co-host and Curator of the Cedarmere Reading Series in the home of William Cullen Bryant (2014-2017).
Liz is currently P/T English Faculty at Central New Mexico Community College & The University of New Mexico, Valencia Campus. She also does volunteer work and administration for a Social Justice Equity Fund, and manages a Summer Education Equity Program for marginalized youth on Long Island.
Liz enjoys large waves and the people who ride them. She admires those who keep our streets safe & beaches clean, and she can usually be found dancing under the Full Moon.
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