Liz

Liz Evans is a British journalist, author, qualified psychotherapist, and academic researcher currently based in Tasmania. Her writing career began in London in 1988, with a decade in music journalism, and during this time she authored two books on women and rock culture for Pandora Press, worked as a TV presenter and radio rock critic, and developed and taught her own adult education course in music journalism. In 1999, Liz began training as a psychodynamic psychotherapist, and now holds two clinical qualifications as well as an MA in Jungian Studies from the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. She has published several academic papers on ecofeminism, ecospsychology and Jungian theory, including her Masters thesis from 2003. While working in private practice, she continued freelancing, and returned to full-time writing in 2018. Covering music, film, books, women’s issues, health, travel, psychology, lifestyle, parenting and environmental topics, Liz has contributed lead features and interviews to a broad selection of magazines, newspapers, academic journals and digital platforms around the world, including The Guardian, NME, New Statesman, Elle, Dumbo Feather, Lunch Lady, TasWeekend, Island Magazine and Womankind among others. An experienced editor, sub-editor and proof-reader, Liz has chaired debates, appeared on panels and presented talks and seminars at academic conferences and cultural events in London, Dublin, Hobart and Sydney, speaking on rock music, ecopsychology, psychotherapy, and most recently the representation of female psychologies in contemporary thrillers as part of her research for a funded PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Tasmania. She has also worked as a Research Assistant on an Environmental Communication project based at Deakin University. In 2021, Liz was awarded a Varuna Fellowship for her fiction.