About

Hello! I'm Elizabeth, owner of Blue Marble Productions in Milwaukee's North Shore. I specialize in nonfiction storytelling — whether that's through a magazine article, a book, a video, or even a calendar.

Publishing background: I have more than 25 years experience as a professional editor, copy editor, proofreader, and writer — currently as a Copy Editor for Trusted Media Brands, Inc., before that as an independent contractor, and in earlier years on staff at various publishing companies in Chicago. Some of my jobs included: Managing Editor of Chef magazine, Associate Editor of Fancy Food & Culinary Products magazine, and Features Editor of ethnicgrocer.com. You can check out some of my writing clips on this site. 

A splash of video: After a highly enjoyable time working my way up the editorial ladder in Chicago, I headed west and trained in documentary video production at U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. My thesis documentary, Indiana Aria, won a Student Academy Award, and my next documentary project, Atlantis Approaching/That Sinking Feeling, was produced with a Fulbright Scholarship to New Zealand. You can see those and other video clips on this site as well.  

School and sabbaticals: Before all that, I earned a Bachelor's degree in English from Carleton College, then taught conversational English in central Japan, then briefly roamed around Asia and Europe (including a summer stint as a busker in Paris, creating a voice/guitar act with the subway trains of Paris as a moving stage).

I'm now back home in the Midwest, living in Milwaukee with my amazing husband (who took a sabbatical from his job to help me produce Atlantis Approaching) and our two wonderful boys.