Liz Latty is a writer, educator, and activist whose work has been featured in The Rumpus, The Establishment, HuffPost, The Feminist Wire, make/shift magazine, The Wayne Literary Review, Jupiter 88, HOLD: A Journal, and the Seal Press anthology, We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, among others. She is the author of the chapbook Split (Unthinkable Creatures Press, 2012) and has been awarded fellowships, grants, and residencies from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Poets & Writers Magazine, Vermont Studio Center, and Rivendell Writers Colony, among others. Her writing was included as a Notable Essay selection in Best American Essays 2017, and has been nominated for Best of the Net 2017, a Pushcart Prize, and the Jackson, Phelan, and Tanenbaum Literary Awards from the San Francisco Foundation. Liz earned an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and is the founder of Open Record Consulting through which she is an avid speaker, educator, and activist around issues related to adoption and child welfare. She currently lives in Brooklyn and is working on a memoir.
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