About - Elizabeth Block

Elizabeth Block is a San Francisco Bay Area author. She was born in Detroit, Michigan. Growing up with one parent from Boston, she also gleaned a strong connection to New England. She has lived in California for a little more than half of her life, mostly in San Francisco. Outside of California, she has lived briefly in Ann Arbor, Annandale-on-Hudson, NYC, Washington DC, and Portland.

Elizabeth is a copywriter, a scriptwriter, a director of copy + content, a content strategist, and an editor for authors published on the BIG 5, University presses, and for sales and (Red Dot award winning) design company copy.

Elizabeth has written for brands such as Sotheby’s International, The Disruption Society, Think Tank Photo, MindShift Gear, Studio Sarah Willmer, and Jack Nadel International. You can hire her to write or strategize for your brand through her agency, here.

Elizabeth has been nationally recognized for her award-winning fiction, poetry, and screenwriting, and she has presented her short films internationally in festivals, archives, museums, and micro cinemas. (some of which are distributed by Canyon Cinema). She has published two books, and produced, directed, and published a play engaging David Levinthal’s photography series, DESIRE, and published her work in numerous journals and anthologies.

Elizabeth has performed her writing across the United States, and she has presented it on numerous public radio stations in the United States and in Australia.

Her novel, A GESTURE THROUGH TIME, received the Doris Roberts/William Goyen Fiction Fellowship from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and VOX3 solicited it for feature film adaptation.

Elizabeth is the recipient of numerous national/international literary awards and residencies.

Elizabeth has taught writing and media arts (and has been a visiting faculty) at various colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay Area and at The New School in NYC.

Elizabeth holds two MFA degrees in writing and film (California College of the Arts), a Master’s degree in cultural anthropology (UC Santa Cruz, and an undergraduate degree in cultural anthropology (University of Michigan Honors College, with high honors). She also studied creative writing at Bard College.

Elizabeth loves taking hikes in the Bay Area and watching surfers in San Francisco and Santa Cruz. She enjoys eating her way up Route 1 and through the very local neighborhood joints in San Francisco.