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Voice & perspective
Writing About Disability and Illness
Writing about disability and illness through lived experience, challenging stereotypes and simplistic portrayals.
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Elizabeth Levine, M.A., M.P.H., M.F.A.
Author, Writing Workshop Facilitator, Foreign Language Educator & TranslatorA place for the stories we are still learning to tell.
Strategy of Memory brings together Elizabeth’s writing, small-group workshops, foreign language teaching, editorial practice, and consulting services.
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“Memory is not a destination, but a method.”
Writing and teaching
What brings you here?
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Workshops
Creative writing workshops on disability and illness, grief, trauma, recovery, and aging.
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Foreign Language Teaching
Spanish, French, and English instruction shaped around each learner.
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Writing & Publications
Elizabeth’s poetry, books, and wider literary work.
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Editorial Services
Editorial guidance and consulting services for writers and organizations.
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Featured workshops
Writing from lived experience.
Small-group writing workshops rooted in the Amherst Writers & Artists method. No previous writing experience is necessary.
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Featured workshop
Writing About Grief
A small-group writing workshop exploring loss, memory, and the changes that follow.
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Memory & form
Writing About Trauma
Explore difficult experiences through creative writing, with attention to memory, language, and personal boundaries.
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Coming in 2027 — join the waiting list
Writing About Recovery
Explore recovery through writing, considering how change, memory, and identity shape individual experience.
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Coming in 2027 — join the waiting list
Writing About Aging
Explore aging through writing, considering how memory, identity, and the passage of time shape individual experience.
Explore workshopNow enrolling — weekly online classes
- Writing About Grief — Saturdays, 4:00–6:00 pm, from November 14, 2026. Final session: Tuesday, December 22, 2026, 4:00–6:00 pm.
- Writing About Disability and Illness — Tuesdays, 4:00–6:00 pm, from November 10, 2026. Final session: Saturday, December 19, 2026, 4:00–6:00 pm.
$25 per class · $100 per month. Rolling admission — join any week. The monthly fee covers every class that month, so months with a fifth session include one free class.
About Elizabeth
Writer, writing workshop facilitator, foreign language educator, and translator.
Elizabeth Levine, M.A., M.P.H., M.F.A., is a writer, writing workshop facilitator, foreign language educator, and translator.
She has taught Spanish, French, and English. Her work includes foreign language instruction, manuscript editing, and small-group creative writing workshops.
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Academic preparation and teaching experience.
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Featured publication
The Ribbon Around the Bomb
A poetry chapbook by Elizabeth Levine
In her debut collection, Elizabeth Levine uses dramatic monologues to imagine the final thoughts of writers and artists. The poems consider art, grief, and the lives behind the work.
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Poets and readers respond.
Excerpts from poets, writers, and readers on Elizabeth’s two chapbooks. Full reviews and endorsements are on the Books & Publications page.
Maria Mazziotti GillanAmerican Book Award recipient; director, PCCC Poetry CenterPortrait: Joe Costa
“Elizabeth Levine’s poems are passionate and unforgettable explorations of a woman artist’s life and psyche.”The Ribbon Around the Bomb
Tara MoyleM.F.A., L.P.C. · Educator, mental health counselor and poetry instructor
“Even as the narrator insists she is numb, there’s so much feeling in these poems.”God Doesn’t Live at Our House Anymore
Valerie Mich’El OliverM.P.S. · Author and editor
“I knew I made a good decision to read “God Doesn’t Live At Our House Anymore” when a flood of tears streamed down my face and I couldn’t stop sobbing about halfway into reading this chapbook.”God Doesn’t Live at Our House Anymore
Professional practice
Foreign language teaching, editing, and consulting.
Individual and group foreign language instruction, editorial work, and consulting for organizations.
Foreign Language Teaching
Group or individualized support in Spanish, French, and English.
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Close, constructive attention for literary and professional writing, plus consulting for organizations.
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From the blog
Strategy of Memory
Elizabeth’s long-running journal brings together poetry, personal reflection, interviews, teaching news, and writing on art, grief, disability, and recovery.
I Will Offer Virtual Creative Writing Classes This SummerAn invitation to join Elizabeth’s upcoming virtual creative writing classes.Samsara 2025: Interview with Mark Dendy, Fountain House Gallery ArtistA conversation about art, performance, transformation, and the many incarnations of the Buddha.Poetry of Grief — Jerusalem PostAn essay on poetry and bereavement, Edward Hirsch’s Gabriel, and research on writing about loss.
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Readings & conversations
Land of Secrets
Elizabeth performs her personal essay “Land of Secrets,” winner of the 2025 Brooklyn Film Arts Nonfiction Prize.
Ekphrasis! Poets Respond to Art
A reading in the gallery at the Pleiades Gallery exhibition Heather Stivison: Borders and Boundaries, where poets responded to the art on the walls.
Notes from Strategy of Memory
Occasional reflections on language, memory, and craft.
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