Short Biography
Liz Baxmeyer is a writer, artist, musician, audio artist, composer and lecturer living in Northern California. She holds an MA in music from Bangor University, Wales, UK, and an MFA in Writing and Contemporary Media from Antioch University, Santa Barbara. Her creative work often examines themes at the intersections of nature, folklore, trauma, and feminism. Her prose, poetry, and art have been published in Wild Roof Journal, The Examined Life Journal, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Syncopation Literary, Luna Station Quarterly, and more. Baxmeyer is Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Calendula Review: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. @lizbaxwrites
Words about Root & Bone
"Liz Baxmeyer arrives, with Root & Bone, as a dazzling new voice in American Letters." - Alice Anderson, author of Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away.
"This striking hybrid collection sings of a deep connection to the natural world, to family, to the self." - Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of The Fire Eater and Bad Mexican, Bad American.
"These poems and stories sing with the old sense of fabulae — dramatic and grounding. Root & Bone takes the reader into terrain that shifts in stunning ways." - Patrick Grizzell, author of Dark Music, Chicken Moths, 13 Poems, and others.
Baxmeyer's debut chapbook, Root & Bone, is available through Finishing Line Press at the link below.
In Root & Bone, Baxmeyer explores all the wildness life brings through landscapes that hold us. By binding to the liminal spaces within the natural world, this hybrid collection shifts reality. Through these poems, stories, and paintings, worlds of mythology and ecology converge, begging us to reflect: what can be learned from the environment that will help us know ourselves a little more deeply?
To purchase a copy of Root & Bone, which includes access to the immersive audio version (coming soon), please visit Liz's author page at Finishing Line Press.
Recent Publications in Writing and Audio
Finishing Line Press – Hybrid chapbook and audiobook, Root & Bone, - November 2024.
Health Humanities Consortium – narrative audio piece, Walking with Dryads, April 2024.
Conference on Community Writing – audio piece, Collage of Voices, October 2023
The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference – Earth Speak: An Immersive Audio Piece, June 2023.
Wild Roof Journal – Short nonfiction, “Mitosis,” - November 2023.
Typishly Literary – Flash fiction, “Yowl” - July 2023.
BTS Annual - Microfiction, “The Conductor” - BTS Books, 2023.
BTS Annual - Poem, “Home is…” - BTS Books, 2023.
BTS Annual - Short story, “Flickering Lights” - BTS Books, 2023.
Capella Poetry Journal - Poem, “Earth Speak” - forthcoming, 2023.
Capella Poetry Journal - Poem, “Ent Wife” - forthcoming, 2023.
Capella Poetry Journal - Poem, “Symphony on Air” - forthcoming, 2023
Capella Poetry Journal - Poem, “Mothering” forthcoming, 2023
The Ghostly Challenge Anthology - Short Story, “The Sleeping Pianist” 2023.
The Ghostly Challenge Anthology - Microfiction, “The Conductor” 2023.
Beyond Words Literary Magazine - Flash fiction, “Inosculation” - May 2023.
IWAC - Paper, "Growing a WAC Program Alongside a New College" Published by WAC Clearinghouse, May 2023 (with William Davis, Rikki Corniola, Chris Wostenberg, and Gloria Poveda).
Common Thread - Essay, “International Day of Forests” - Antioch University, March 2023.
Syncopation Literary – Short story, “Little Revelations” published in March 2023 issue.
NCTE, Dynamic Activities - Activity, "Article Speed Dating: Comparative Research" is included in the collection, March 2023.
Querencia Press - Women, Queer, Trans, and Enby Anthology – Poem, “A Graft for Time” published in Jan. 2023 issue.
Querencia Press - Women, Queer, Trans, and Enby Anthology – Poem, “Birth of the Cyclades” published in Jan. 2023 issue.
Luna Station Quarterly – Short story, “The Oak Tree” published in December 2022 edition.
Wild Roof Journal – Poem, “A Song for Asteria,” November 2022 issue.
The Examined Life Journal – Creative non-fiction piece, “Birdsong,” published in 2022 issue.
Beyond Words Literary Magazine – Poem, “There will be progress” featured in Oct. 2022 issue.