Liz Arnold is a writer and independent editor. Her essays, reviews, and journalism have appeared in Fourth Genre, The Common, Ninth Letter, The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, Catapult, and WNYC, among many others. From 2010-2017, she taught creative writing in public schools as a writer-in-residence with Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Since 2018 she has served as managing editor of ACLU Magazine.
A 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction Literature from The New York Foundation for the Arts, she has received grants, residencies, and scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Tin House Workshop, Vermont Studio Center, and the Wertheim Study at the New York Public Library. Raised in rural Michigan, she has a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in the Finger Lakes region and in Brooklyn, New York.