About
I was born in Minneapolis and grew up in Washington, DC and Northern Virginia. My father, Roland Flint, was a poet and professor of English at Georgetown University and my mother, Janet Altic Flint, was a curator of American prints and drawings at the Smithsonian Institution. So I grew up in a writerly, artsy household in the Glover Park neighborhood in DC.
My first love was basketball—I shot hoops every day in the alley behind our rowhouse with the neighborhood kids, and at Stoddert Elementary—where I was the only girl on an otherwise all-boys team. As a shooting guard in sixth grade, I belonged to two teams: the Jelleff Boys and Girls Club and Holy Trinity school. When it so happened that the two teams were set to meet, I played one half for each team, swapping out uniforms at half-time.
After my brother Ethan's death in 1972, my parents split and my mother, sister and I moved to Arlington, Virginia, where I continued to play basketball and added psychology and eventually poetry and photography to my interests. At 17, I recognized that I was suffering from severe depression, and so took up the arduous work of healing and self-inquiry in the presence of a heaven-sent therapist.
At 41, I had a spiritual awakening that came like a left hook and set me on an entirely unexpected course, including two years living homeless. I have a B.A. in English from Georgetown University, an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Virginia, and an M.S. in Rhetoric & Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota.
Contact
The best way to reach me is by email: elizabethflint1964@gmail.com.