About
Elizabeth is an Associate Teaching Professor at Penn State University. After the sudden death of her son, Mack, in 2012, she began reading widely and participating in the community of the bereaved to learn how to live after the death of someone you don't know how to live without. Elizabeth's essays can be read on Open to Hope, Compassionate Friends, Motherwell, and Modern Loss. Her collection of essays "Oil for Your Lantern: Sharing Light After the Death of a Child" was published with Sunbury Press in November 2024.
Featured Work
Oil for Your Lantern: Sharing Light After the Death of a Child
After the death of a child we often hear "there are no words." But there are words. Oil for Your Lantern offers the newly bereaved, and those who love them, a gentle introduction to life after the death of a child, sharing words when we don't yet have them ourselves. The collection of essays explore practical, cultural, and spiritual aspects of mourning a beloved child.
Elizabeth's son Mack died suddenly of sepsis on New Year's Eve 2012.
Other Works
Awards and Recognition
- Oil for Your Lantern received the Small Book award and was a finalist in the Grief category for the 19th annual National Indie Excellence Awards.
