Liza Nelson graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1972. She eventually settled in Atlanta, where she was editor of The Great Speckled Bird and The Atlanta Gazette, alternative weeklies, and was literary manager for The Alliance Theater. More recently, she has been a biweekly columnist, writing on life beyond the suburbs, for The Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Nelson has written essays for The New York Times, Glamour, and McCall's, and her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares and other journals. She lives on a working farm in Newnan, Georgia, with her husband and two children.

Books by Liza Nelson

Playing Botticelli

by Liza Nelson