At age 5, Elizabeth wanted to be a wild horse trainer / ballerina. None of those panned out, so she settled for drawing as many ballerinas and horses as she could.

At age 13, she made a story about a grumpy elf with a pet snail and it was published through a contest for kids. This ignited a lifelong passion for storytelling—whether through illustration, comics, or ideally...around a campfire with friends. ?

Fast forward to now, (skipping the part about art school, depression, and writing terrible poems on typewriters), her current days are filled with non-fiction illustration—biographical, historical, political & sometimes poetical-philosophical. ?

She is also the art + editorial director at Illustoria magazine, published by McSweeney’s. Inside its colorful, curiosity-inducing pages, we celebrate comics, stories & DIY.

She lives in Portland, Oregon.