Getting By
Trapped at a corporate leadership conference, an artist reflects on her blissful past and impotent present.
Elizabeth Dwyer
Elizabeth Dwyer is a multifaceted writer with bylines, screenwriter credits, and published essays. She wrote and co-produced two award-winning short films, Imagining Vera and Pinky Promise, and two of her academic essays were published in the collection "When Women Wrote Hollywood: Essays on Female Screenwriters in the Early Film Industry" (MacFarland, 2018).
After earning an MFA in TV & Screenwriting through Stephens College, Elizabeth’s scripts have placed in numerous competitions, including the Austin Film Festival (Second Rounder), the ISA Fast Track Fellowship (Finalist/Top 8), the ColorCreative Teen Movie Contest (Semifinalist/Top 8), WeScreenplay Diverse Voices (Finalist), and the George R.R. Martin Screenwriting Grant (Finalist). Her reporting work is available at news.unm.edu, and examples of Elizabeth’s creative nonfiction essays can be seen on ElephantJournal.com and the blog Beauty Coup.
The foundation of Elizabeth’s writing is to tell inclusive, engaging stories that speak in particular to queer and female-identified people from all walks of life. The stories she writes champion those of us who are too often relegated to the margins, illuminating our humanity through universal themes that are accessible to a broad spectrum of audiences and communities. She also writes short-form feminist erotica (under a pen name), with a focus on LGBTQ+ and nonbinary smut.
In addition to her myriad word nerd interests, Elizabeth is also an actor, singer, director, and novice photographer, further exploring the connective thread that links all creative endeavors and ambitions – storytelling.