Elizabeth Baxmeyer

Liz Baxmeyer is an interdisciplinary sound designer, writer, and composer. She holds an MFA in Writing and Contemporary Media from Antioch University, Santa Barbara, CA, and an MA in Music, concentrating in electroacoustic composition, and music for media and the arts, from Bangor University, Wales, UK. 

Over the last twenty years, Liz has released various albums in the folk and singer-songwriter genre and performed at venues and festivals in both the UK and USA including the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, SF Folk Festival, Warwick Folk Festival, Llandudno Arts Festival, Broadstairs, and Sidmouth Folk Week, amongst others. As well as having an active music performance career, she has created immersive sound design and scores for numerous San Francisco Bay Area plays and received three theatre industry awards for sound design.

Liz's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in an array of literary outlets including The Examined Life Journal, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Luna Station Quarterly, Wild Roof Journal, Common Thread, and more. She is also a certified Amherst Writers & Artists Affiliate workshop facilitator and is committed to creating safe spaces for writing and expression. In much of her work, Liz is interested in exploring the relationships between folklore, the environment, feminism, and trauma. 

Liz has taught writing and music classes at the college level for over fourteen years and is currently Lecturer of Humanities at a health sciences university in California where she teaches music appreciation, English composition, Health Professions Seminar, The Music of Change, Undergraduate Research, The Wellness Elective, and writing labs. She also runs the podcast studio and is Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Calendula Review: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, the college's first creative journal. 

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