Boston University School of Public Health
M.P.H. International Health, Boston University School of Public Health · Magna Cum Laude
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Levine, M.A., M.P.H., M.F.A.
Writer, writing workshop facilitator, foreign language educator, and translator.
A life in words and teaching
Elizabeth brings her experience as a writer and professor to workshops, foreign language instruction, editorial work, and consulting. Her practice makes space for both careful craft and individual voice.
Amherst Writers & Artists training
Elizabeth is an Amherst Writers & Artists–trained workshop facilitator.
The Amherst Writers Method welcomes every writer’s voice, offers prompts for exploration, and responds to new writing with attention to its strengths and craft.
Education & training
The Johns Hopkins University
B.A. Humanities/Comparative Literature, Johns Hopkins University · Magna Cum Laude
Minors: French, Hispanic & Italian Studies · Junior Year Abroad at the Sorbonne (Paris) and the Universidad de Madrid
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
M.A. International Negotiation, The Fletcher School, Tufts University · Magna Cum Laude
William Paterson University
M.F.A. Creative Writing, William Paterson University · Magna Cum Laude
Her selected academic preparation includes creative-writing pedagogy and workshops; advanced French and Spanish foreign language and literature; international negotiation and human-rights law; public health and health care systems; and non-profit management consulting.
Writer
Poet, author, and translator
Elizabeth writes in English, French, and Spanish. Her chapbooks The Ribbon Around the Bomb and God Doesn’t Live at Our House Anymore (as Charlotte Clear) are published by Finishing Line Press. Her work has appeared in Mudfish, The Kelsey Review, Divorce: Where Once We Parted, and The Ringwood Barn Tenth Anniversary Anthology, and she writes regularly for The Fountain Pen and The Fountain Times.
She won the 2025 Brooklyn Film Arts Nonfiction Prize for her performance of the personal essay “Land of Secrets,” and is working on a quartet of novellas: Gay Geography, The Promised Land, The Unravelling, and The Hemisphere of Grief. An earlier manuscript, All That Remains, was adapted as the play And She Was There.
Writing community
Reading, teaching, belonging
Elizabeth belongs to The Montclair Write Group, Straw Dog Writers’ Guild (SDWG), Amherst Writers & Artists, and the North Carolina Writers’ Network.
montclairwritegroup.org 
strawdogwriters.org 
ncwriters.org amherstwriters.org Elizabeth presents her workshop “Entering the Image: Ekphrastic Writing” at the Write Angles Conference on October 24, 2026. She has been the featured poet at five New Jersey literary events and reads at open mics in Asheville, North Carolina.
Her teaching includes English composition, literature, and creative writing at William Paterson University and Montclair State University, and English, French, and Spanish for students of every age.
Before academia: consulting in New York City
Before entering academia, Elizabeth ran a consulting firm in New York City for many years. In this short video, she introduces her consulting work.
Professional recommendations
Writers and professors on Elizabeth’s work
Selected excerpts from letters supplied by Elizabeth. Application and fellowship names have been omitted.
“Elizabeth stood out in our program for her originality and raw emotional honesty.”
“Elizabeth is incredibly resilient and versatile—as an educator and as a writer of both poetry and fiction.”
“Her writing is prolific, her energy boundless, and her dedication to the craft of writing and teaching creative writing remarkable.”