Liz Ellison Baron is a writer and storyteller. Her plays have been developed and produced in Chicago, New York, Minneapolis, Omaha, Aspen, and elsewhere. She has written and performed with Ottawa StoryTellers and the Chicago Neo-Futurists and has received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation screenwriting grant and a Steven Bochco fellowship. Liz holds a B.A. in English and theater from Dartmouth College, an M.F.A. in dramatic writing from Carnegie Mellon University, and, weirdly, an M.B.A. from McGill University. She lives with her family in Ottawa, Ontario.