About - Elizabeth Block

Elizabeth Block is an award-winning San Francisco based author, writer, and editor for brands and experiences.

Elizabeth is a podcast writer/producer, copywriter, a scriptwriter, a director and chief of writing, a content strategist, and an editor/proofreader 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 Verbhouse (San Francisco/Toronto), Sotheby’s International (San Francisco), The Disruption Society, Think Tank Photo, MindShift Gear, Studio Sarah Willmer, and Jack Nadel International.

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, published a play, 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 and streaming platforms in the United States, Spain, and in Australia.

Her novel, A GESTURE THROUGH TIME, received a fiction fellowship from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and VOX3 solicited her work 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.