Elizabeth reeder biography

writing bio

Originally from Chicago, I live in Scotland and am a writer.  I write novels, lyric essays/poems/crossover pieces, short stories, and do some writing for BBC Radio 4 (I love doing abridgments, in particular). I am privileged to be a MacDowell Colony Fellow.

I teach on and co-convene Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. I’ve taught creative writing in a wide variety of places and communities and, for many years, was instrumental in the instigation and growth of the creative writing evening classes, online courses and mentoring programme in creative writing for University of Strathclyde’s Centre for Lifelong Learning.

The process we as writers and makers go through is continually fascinating to me.  I’m a firm believer in muscular, crafted writing that is still clear and simply complex in a way that invites the reader in.  Recently I’ve been exploring  crisis, landscapes,  cartographies, families, and memory  and while part of my writing will stay focused here, I’m turning my attentions to other places as well (to fire, failure

Elizabeth M. Reeder focuses her practice on representing privately-held multi generational businesses and families. She counsels individuals and businesses from start-ups to established, regional companies. Her diverse client base includes entrepreneurs in the high-tech, real estate, healthcare, manufacturing, and automotive industries, among others. As part of her service to automotive clients, Liz is a member of the National Association of Dealer Counsel.

Liz spends much of her practice working with clients on business succession and navigating the unique business, tax, estate, and family issues inherent in such transitions. Liz also assists her clients with choice of entity issues, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and venture capital, intellectual property, taxation, and general business law. She is a Business Law Fellow of the American Bar Association and was recognized by the Northern Kentucky Chamber as a Next Generation Leader in the category of Legal Services in 2018. Lizi s a frequent speaker for bar associations and employer groups on corporate, tax,

School of Critical Studies

Current Doctoral Students:

Clarkson, Amy – SGSAH – her practice-research explores creative interpretations of rewilding place.

Moth Adams, Gaar – Guest Privileges

Dunlop, Kirsty – conduction practice-based research into interactive fiction, glitch and emergent essaying.

Neuwirth, Christina – SGSAH Funded, Women of Words with University of Stirling and Scottish Book Trust

Deerwater, Michael - Beyond the Anthropocene

Junggeburth, Loll - Archiving the Human and Planetary Body in Decline

Skeete, Isana Ana Leah - Queer Characters of Colour in High Fantasy

Foulkes, Carrie - Renunciation Exercises: An interdisciplinary research project exploring narratives of illness and bereavement

Jennett, Meagan - Researching links between Appalachia and Scotland.

Please see the students' biographies for more information about their writing and research.

 

Completed Doctoral Students

Haynes, Laura – College of Arts Scholarship The Quick: Autotheory and Radical Intimacy in the Means and Production of Art and its Discourses

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