About

Hi! I’m Elizabeth!

I’m a writer currently pitching a book about the maternal love of God, which explores all the ways that God loves like a mother throughout the Bible and how mothers bear the image of God right in the midst of diapers and dishes. It’s the book I desperately needed when my kids were little.

I’m married to Eric who loves me so much that he lets me make to-do lists with him on Saturday mornings. Sometimes even before coffee. We live in Minneapolis with our three kids — Owen (11), Elsa (10) and Lewis (7) — and one golden doodle named Penny who lives for stolen trash and chasing squirrels.

Some of my other party tricks: I’m a former public school ELL teacher, and I’ve lived in South Korea and South Sudan. For my day job, I homeschool my kids. I’m a textbook Enneagram 1, and I think the world of proper grammar. I love food. Cooking, to me is cathartic, and feeding people around my table is unabashed joy.

I love Jesus, the Refugee King one, the One who washed feet and healed the blind and calmed the storm and loved His mother. I believe that He brought and is himself the Solution to Every Problem, and I believe that He shows up in our everyday...in the perfection of baby cheeks, in the liturgy of diaper changes, in that towering oak across the street.

I have always done my best thinking while writing: I still have boxes of my angst-ridden teenage journals, with impassioned love letters to JTT tucked deeply into their bindings. Today, most of my thoughts exists in coffee-ringed pages of my calendar or in half-finished Google Doc pages that are just begging to be revisited now that everyone in our house sleeps through the night again and the bags under my eyes have slightly receded.

I’m so glad you’re here and would love to connect further!