About Elizabeth

Travel is in her heritage

Call it a rich indoctrination. Elizabeth’s travel experiences reach back to her childhood—including three-week family road trips and a jack-knifed pop-up camper on a deserted Colorado road. Early on, she realized the importance of research for a successful journey and grew up learning the skills and tips for crafting travel memories.

Her professionalism is recognized

Long-standing, professional relationships speak volumes about Elizabeth’s work. She delivers clean copy on deadline, and the reader is always top-of-mind. As a people person, she’s happiest when meeting and chatting with a business owner or interacting with tourism professionals to help promote their venue or destination.

Since 2008, she has contributed to Group Travel Leader’s consortium of publications, which includes Group Travel Leader, Select Traveler, Going on Faith, and Small Market Meetings. Online, she writes for Matador Network and PBS Travelscope. Regionally, she crafts restaurant and bed and breakfast reviews for Show-Me Missouri magazine. Other credits include: AAA publications, Travel Squire blog, Country Living, The Kansas City Star, numerous editing/writing projects with Andrews McMeel Publishing, and the 2020 Visit Nebraska state travel guide.

Her portfolio is diverse—personality profiles, articles for tweens, contributions to several book compilations, and a faith-based study for middle school girls titled God’s Girl. Between deadlines, Elizabeth has worked on book editing projects. A favorite was Tried and True, the cookbook for Kansas City’s acclaimed urban inn, Southmoreland on the Plaza.

Her experience is solid

As a member of Midwest Travel Journalists Association, she has assisted with branding and is currently serving on MTJA’s membership committee.

Elizabeth holds degrees in English and Business from Baylor University. Her business career began at Hallmark Cards where she worked in product development and product management and managed lines—from concept through production—with annual sales up to $28 million. In recent years, she has taught creative writing skills to middle schoolers and led workshops at writing conferences.