Her life’s plot is complicated and has a happy ending. Although
Elizabeth Inness-Brown ’76 came to
St. Lawrence University with four different majors in mind,
through the mentoring and advising of her faculty, she finally decided
to double major in fine
art and English,
studying fiction writing and poetry writing with SLU faculty and
visiting writers. St.
Lawrence’s Visiting
Writers Series bring well-known
writers of every genre to campus to give readings, teach in classes
and mentor students.
In addition, she had opportunities
to work both on the national literary magazine fiction
international and the student literary magazine,
through which she learned the proofreading and editing skills that helped put
her through the Columbia University MFA program. After graduating she taught
at a number of colleges, including St. Lawrence, before landing at St. Michael’s
College.
Liz published her most recent novel, Burning Marguerite,
in 2002 and continues as a respected teacher at St. Michael’s
in Vermont. She’s a regular faculty member at the St.
Lawrence University’s Young Writers Conference for high school
students. Thanks to faculty mentorship and excellent example,
Liz says, she has found a career that she loves, a career as a writer
who loves to teach and a teacher who loves to write.
