"I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyone’s work should be...whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply cannot or will not understand or accept. You stumble forward, confused, and you share. If you’re lucky, you learn something." —Arthur Miller
In the world according to Elizabeth Duvivier, life is a mythic quest filled with animal helpers, fire-breathing dragons, treacherous cliffs, woodland sanctuaries and a startling, out-of-the ordinary occurrence always popping up when you least expect it.
On her journey, she has been a teacher of English and French literature, as well as creative and expository writing. She has been a bartender; the commercialization manager of an engineering/manufacturing company; contributing editor for an IT magazine; the head coach for an elite boarding school’s Varsity Girls’ lacrosse team, the program director for a university arts outreach program and a doting aunt—among other sundry experiences that provide fabulous lived experiences for a writer.
In 2008, Elizabeth founded Squam Art Workshops, a creative community that has hosted people from over 47 states and 22 countries and where she offers classes in writing and living your myth.
Though she studied at Swarthmore College, Lawrence University, La Sorbonne (Universite de Paris), Bread Loaf and The French School (Middlebury College), Elizabeth has found the best teacher, ever and always, to be friendship.
She makes her home in Providence, Rhode Island with her dog, Remy.
photo credit: James Feighny