Elizabeth Westra
Elizabeth Westra is a former middle school English teacher who left for ten years to teach writing for the Institute of Children's Literature. She has published more than 200 articles, short stories and poems in children's magazines. Her easy reader, Alexander and the Stallion, was published by Richard C. Owen, and "Why me, God?" appeared in the anthology, Encounters with God, by Standard Publishing. She also wrote pieces for Michigan and Nebraska's MEAP tests. She is a long time member of SCBWI-MI and a local writers' group. She loves reading, walking and photography.