author | screenwriter | playwright
Liz Kerin is the author of the NIGHT’S EDGE duology (Tor Nightfire, 2023-2024) and dark fantasy adventure THE PHANTOM FOREST (2019). In addition to her work in literary fiction, Liz is also a screenwriter and award-winning playwright. Her play STOP-MOTION was awarded the 2018 Parity Commission and received a production at Theater for the New City in NYC in 2021, and her work has received multiple honors from The Road Theatre, Theatricum Botanicum, and the Kennedy Center. She is a graduate of the Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch and has numerous film/TV projects in active development. Her short fiction has appeared in Reactor Magazine, in the PUNK GOES HORROR anthology (Truborn, 2025), and in Brink Literary (Forthcoming Spring 2025). She lives in Southern California where you can find her working in her garden or hiking in the hills with her Corgi, Clementine.
news + events
UPCOMING EVENTS
Silverlake Reading Club: Female Rage
7/11/25, 3:30PM. Botanica Restaurant, Los Angeles. EVENT IS SOLD OUT BUT JOIN THE WAIT LIST HERE.
5/27/25 - THE PHANTOM FOREST has been re-released as a new hardcover edition with the author’s preferred text (also available in eBook)!
5/26/25 - Liz’s personal essay has been published by Brink Literary Journal. Visit their site to read for free and subscribe to the magazine.
5/6/25 - Liz’s feature screenplay PYONGYANG HOME VIDEO is in development with Imagine Entertainment starring Jameela Jamil and Squid Game’s Won-Ji An. (via Deadline)
3/11/25 - The paperback edition of FIRST LIGHT is now available, as well as the PUNK GOES HORROR anthology, which includes Liz’s short story “Down by the Water.”
