Elaine Liner

Elaine Liner started her journalism career at Hearst Magazines in New York City and went on to write cover stories, columns and criticism for newspapers and magazines, including Dallas Morning News, Dallas Times Herald, Dallas Observer, Corpus Christi Caller-Times and others. Among her awards for writing are honors from Women in Communications, Dallas Press Club, Associated Press Managing Editors and Texas Non-Profit Theaters Association.

She has a degree in theater from Trinity University and a master’s of liberal arts from Southern Methodist University. She has taught writing, arts/film criticism and ethics on the college level.

In 2013 she debuted as a playwright and solo performer in "Sweater Curse: A Yarn about Love" at Sweet Venues Grassmarket at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, returning for a second run in 2014 and touring it in the US ever since. Since 2011 she has been teaching creative people how to do their own publicity in her Media Darling and Media Matrix Workshops.

Elaine lives in Texas, where she was recently certified as an Infinite Possibilities motivational life coach. In her spare time, she paints pictures of clouds and knits huge shawls.

Her best advice for writers comes from John Bloom aka "Joe Bob Briggs," the drive-in movie critic: "Write every day. Write every day. Write every day. This is all I know."