Biography
Writer/editor/educator/workshop leader with expertise in Latin America and the Caribbean, human rights, religion and the arts. Elizabeth Hanly, MA, has brought home stories from war zones and refugee camps, from gold mines and Peronist Party headquarters, from art studios and rooftops in Havana. Her work appears in dozens of newspapers and national magazines, including The New York Times, London’s The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald, The Nation, Vogue, Elle, and Art in America.
Hanly has designed cultural, educational and human rights programs then written and received grants for those programs from W.F. Kellogg Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the National Council of Churches, among others. She leads writing workshops at NYC’s Memorial Sloan-Ketting Cancer Center as well as for the Herbert Wertheim School of Medicine. Hanly has written and edited for UNICEF and has served as Associate Editor at Scholastic Books.” The winner of FIU’s “Excellence in Teaching,” award, she teaches upper-level Honors courses: “Film from the Third World”; “What’s Going On: PBS’s Frontline documentary series. Her students in “Creative Nonfiction” have won FIU’s Creative Writing award for the last nine years and counting. She thinks Umberto Eco was very right when he said, “To survive you must tell stories.