Gender roles, rights, and norms have evolved, as evidenced by this week’s Supreme Court ruling on sex discrimination. I remember when The Marriage Act felt like being at the forefront …
Coming in June: Santa Cruz Noir & book launch events
Thrilled to be a contributor to the latest anthology in Akashic’s long-running Noir series, edited by Susie Bright, and featuring my talented friends & colleagues Elizabeth McKenzie, Micah Perks, Jill Wolfson, Peggy …
In the zone
I just turned 38 which made me realize I had not published any new work in exactly one year, since I wrote an essay about women not being believed and …
The only writing advice you’ll ever need
may come from this book The 90 Day Novel by Alan Watt, which came recommended to me by a grad school friend while we were in NYC this summer. So, …
Today I get back to work on my novel
with occasional distractions from a short story I’m writing on the side. I found a new epigraph for the novel that I LOVE – and I can’t start before I …
Four years and seven months later, I finally finished
moving to Santa Cruz, even though I first arrived in November of 2012. Only now are all the contents of my box shipment from Brooklyn finally put away, no more …
Forget the Marie Kondo Method, Just Throw It All Away
The last few days, I’ve been clearing out my old Brooklyn apartment to make more space for our friend who has been subletting it since I moved to Santa Cruz …
Malin Akerman and Oprah Honor Liza, Selecting Her Work
…for, respectively, the New York Times’ Modern Love Podcast, and new anthology O’s Little Book of Calm and Comfort! See the previous entry for Liza’s thoughts on good things happening …
Little Reminders
I haven’t written much in the last ten weeks because I’ve been very busy teaching (not to mention being a mamma). Sometimes I wondered if and when I’d be able …
Front-page Feature on Liza in the Santa Cruz Sentinel
“So, your mother is running interference in your dating life. She claims to know who is or who is not a good match for you, that she can see clearly …
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