Eliza Mason
is a writer, editor, and consultant. She graduated from Columbia University summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Literature and Writing; at Columbia she studied with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham and philosopher, feminist cultural theorist and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. She has written for the mayor of New York City, Time Magazine for Kids Online, and Nickelodeon, and she has edited books that Oxford University Press and Routledge have published. She has written and edited in the fields of the social sciences, the humanities, literature, local government, the nonprofit sector, and psychoanalysis. She taught writing as an adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn.
Eliza’s dramatic writing has been presented at the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City; her fiction has appeared in The Silent History; and she has cowritten lyrics for Hope DeBates and North Forty. She has studied sketch comedy writing at the Upright Citizens Brigade and acted in films and television shows. She is at work on a forthcoming collaboration with jazz saxophonist Chris Cheek, among other projects.
Eliza’s public service includes working for local government and nonprofit organizations. For three years, Eliza wrote and edited for the Mayor’s Office of New York City. For six years, she worked at ArtsConnection, where she was a program manager and helped to build teams, facilitate transformational dialogue, and provide professional development to teaching artists.
She lives with her husband in New York City.
Photo credit: Scott Pilutik