Hi! :) I’m Eliza.

I’m a writer, researcher, and multimedia artist from Utah currently living in Queens, New York.

My work is about power, belief, and desire. I’ve written about the politics of online content moderation; the bizarre hellhole that is the Salt Lake City Airport; getting my tea leaves read in Sofia, Bulgaria; the anxiety of learning to “participate” in the “sexual marketplace” after being raised in Mormon purity culture. I also write stuff on my blog, Sloppy Femme. I was a Brooklyn Poets fellow in the spring of 2023, and a Woodward Resident in fall 2023, and have published poems in Barrow Street Journal, HASH Journal, and Rufous City Review.

As a researcher and activist, I’ve mostly focused on technologies of oppression, and the ways that people around the world fight against them. I was previously a researcher at Amnesty International, a program director at the Middle East Institute, and a Fulbright fellow in Bulgaria. I completed my graduate work on surveillance technology at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. I’ve spoken at and convened panels and working groups at universities, NGOs, and, informally, in many of America’s finest gas station parking lots. Since 2022, I’ve had the privilege of working with Timothy James Young, a writer, poet, and activist who has been wrongfully incarcerated in California for over 25 years. (Please check out more of Tim’s work here.)

Work

Selected Speaking and Interviews