Author | Elizabeth Garber

Elizabeth W. Garber was born in 1953 and grew up in the village of Glendale, Ohio. She has lived on a square-rigged sailing ship, and on a dairy farm in France. She studied mythology and Greek epic at Johns Hopkins and Harvard, worked as a renovation carpenter in California, and received her Masters in Traditional Five Element Acupuncture and has been practicing this for 21 years in Belfast, Maine.

Her first full-length book of poetry was Pierced by the Seasons: Living a Life on the Coast of Maine (2004). Her poem “Feasting” from this collection was read on The Writer’s Almanac on NPR, and is included in Garrison Keillor’s anthology,  Good Poems for Hard Times (2005). Her second book of poetry is Listening Inside the Dance: A Life in Maine Infused with Tango, and her poem “The Best Ex-Husband You Could Ever Ask For” from this book was read on The Writer’s Almanac.

Her previous collections of poetry are Finding the Beloved: A Personal Journey to Recover the Divine from Centuries of Devastation (1991), which was created along with painted sculptures and performed with a chorus of singers 12 times in New England over two years, including at the University of Maine at Orono and at Harvard Divinity School; Grabbing Down Deep into the Wailing Room and Re-Emerging Through the Fire(1993), performed with drummers and a slide show of photographs; The Salmon Man’s Bride (1993); At the Moment of Meeting: All Can Be Known (1994), a series of poems written in collaboration with the artists Robert Shetterly and Louise Bourne for a show of paintings, sculptures, and poetry exploring the themes of the Annunciation at the Frick Gallery in Belfast, Maine. These collections were published in limited editions.