I have moved my blogging over to Substack–follow me there for my weekly newsletter, Here for All of It, where I discuss disability and caregiving, grief, and life after brain surgery.

I am now offering courses! Find information on them in the Courses and Services tab.

The book I co-edited with Sohui Lee and Julie Prebel, Disruptive Stories: Amplifying Voices from the Writing Center Margin, was named the best book of 2025 by the Council of Writing Program Administrators!

Named a best emerging writer by Master’s Review!

I live with low vision, anxiety, depression, and face blindness. I was widowed in June 2021 after being my husband’s caregiver for a year. I am a certified end-of-life doula and volunteer at The Denver Hospice. I write about grief, disability, Buddhist life, and joy on my blog and in creative works.

I teach disability studies, rhetoric, and writing courses in the English department and direct the Writing Center at Metropolitan State University of Denver. My scholarship is driven by questions about power, authority, access/ability, and rhetorical framing.

I’m currently working on a memoir about the year I was my husband’s caregiver after his stroke and before his death—a deeply transformative period that taught me about love, loss, and the complexities of caregiving relationships. In summer 2025, I experienced my own brain surgery to remove a benign mass, which has given me fresh perspective on both sides of the caregiving relationship and deepened my understanding of disability as lived experience.

I am also a coach for the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity and the host of Supper + Salon.  

Find me everywhere. 

Email me: liz dot kleinfeld at gmail dot com