Elizabeth Yahn-Williams is a poet-playwright who prefers performing? poetic dramas to?practicing?law, learned at LMU and her career from the late 60s to 80s.? UCLA-trained educator, she?became a “Most Distinguished Honorary” life member of MiraCosta College?s Phi Theta? Kappa Chapter for? her mentoring work in leadership and communication.? With a grant from KOCT, she wrote, directed and hosted a TV? mini-series on that group and others in North San Diego County, CA, which won a Telly Finalist?s Award.? Her other accolades include stipends from Ford Foundation, Publishing University/Publishers and Writers of San??? Diego, Vermont Studio Center,? National Audio Theatre Foundation, University of London, at Queen Mary College, England, Summer Literary Seminar in Montreal, Canada, and Virginia Center for the Arts in Auvillar, France.

Recent board member and Standing Chair,? Librarian of the? National League of American Pen Women in Washington, D.C., for whom she has given workshops and been a nationally featured speaker, Elizabeth has written several articles and poetry for?The Pen Woman.

Her haiku have been published in a variety of anthologies, including several from conventions of Haiku North America and the Southern California Haiku Study Group.

For eight years the author co-edited an Ekphrastic series?for the Escondido Arts Partnership entitled?Summation: The Merging of Art and Poetry,??five years a Finalist in the San Diego Book Awards and. a 2017 Eric Hoffer DaVinci Eye Finalist.? These art books also inspired a six-part film series, Creative Collaborations.

In 2011 with her Partner-in-Rhyme, Bob Lundy, she designed?Phantoms of the Gallery as Seen through the Eyes of the El Corazon Creative Writers?that was published by the Phantom Gallery?s artists from Carlsbad?s Village Faire. From 2007-2012 she and Bob emceed Oceanside?s National Authors? Day with North County Authors and Poets, NLAPW, and Read Local,? San? Diego.

Performing as?HITHER & YAHN?in 2012, they initiated?Downtown Verse?for the San Diego Public Libraries and today continue to produce readings, skits and sketches throughout San Diego county, the country and the world, most recently at the main public library in Sint Maarten.