Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios has been featured in Hollins Critic, Kentucky Review, Folliate Oak, Unsplendid and The Edison Review. Her prize-winning chapbook, Special Delivery, written about the loss of her son on the Pan Am 103 Flight, was published by Yellow Chair Press in 2016. She is a Professor Emerita from American University, and has spent most of her life performing as a singing artist across Europe and the United States.