Elayne Clift, M.A. is an award-winning writer, journalist, workshop leader, and lecturer. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon.com, and numerous magazines, periodicals, and anthologies internationally. She is a regular columnist for three New England newspapers and a reviewer for The New York Journal of Books. She has published two memoirs, two books of poetry, three short story collections, three essay collections, a travel memoir, and four edited anthologies and invited works, including Women’s Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment (Haworth Press, 2002) and Women, Philanthropy, and Social Change: Visions for a Just Society (University Press of New England/Tufts University Press,2005). Her poem “I Listen and My Heart is Breaking” was set to music and performed by the world-renowned a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Books
Clift, E. (2014). Women’s encounters with the mental health establishment: Escaping the yellow wallpaper. Routledge.
Morton, C. H., & Clift, E. (2014). Birth Ambassadors: Doulas and the re-emergence of woman-supported birth in America. Praeclarus Press.
Clift, E. (2014). A 21st century plague: Poetry from a pandemic. University Professors Press.
Clift, E. (2012). Hester’s daughters. OGN Publications.
Clift, E. (2010). Achan: A year of teaching in Thailand. Booksmango.