Liz Lorenz

I am currently querying an upmarket speculative manuscript about a restless English teacher, jealous of her wife's pregnancy, who turns to body optimization to rewire her brain and body to be worthy of motherhood, eventually optimizing away her ability to love her wife and their baby. TELL YOUR BLOOD THAT I LOVE YOU, set in Asbury Park, New Jersey, combines the maternal wounds of Rouge by Mona Awad with the longing for a disconnected partner in Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. Grappling with biology and queer family-making, self-destruction disguised as self-improvement, and how unabashedly complicated it is to live inside a body, it's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for the age of GLP-1s.I studied in the MFA program at the New School, majored in Creative Writing at Bard College, and my work has appeared in the Gettysburg Review.EMAIL ME: [email protected]