Eliza Carlson is a force of creative chaos. A lifelong storyteller, poet, singer-songwriter, photographer, and artist, Eliza grew up in New York and Pennsylvania before moving to West Virginia. She independently released her self-written and self-produced debut album of music, Ghost Town, at the age of twenty. 

After graduating from Cornell College in 2025 with double majors in creative writing and art history as well as a minor in studio art, Eliza established her YouTube channel (@elizacarlsonwrites) to document the ongoing writing of her first fantasy-adventure novel. At the same time, Eliza is developing a series of artworks and photographic prints focused on evoking a vibrant world full of wonder and whimsy, whether through her watercolor paintings of woodland fairies or her bright photographs of nature encountered on long walks. She especially loves to work in watercolor painting, pencil drawing, collage, and digital photography, though she also has experience in the fiber arts, sculpture, animation, film photography, needle-felting, and book arts. 

Eliza can most often be found attempting to multitask her way through too many creative projects all at once and totally not losing her mind about it, or rambling about said projects to a camera on YouTube. She is currently in the midst of writing her first novel, her first poetry collection, and her second album of music. 

• Open Field, Cornell College, Spring 2025 edition: personal essay "to the girl who fell out of the tree" selected for publication. 

• The Cornell Report, Cornell College, No. 2, Vol. 48, Spring 2025: curated and wrote introduction to a collection of poetry, "Cornell's community in verse," from Cornell College alumni, staff, and current students, contributed an original poem "redwood" to the collection.

• The Cornellian, Cornell College, 2024-2025 academic year: served as business manager and writer for the student newspaper, wrote articles for all four full issues published.

• Open Field, Cornell College, Spring 2024 edition: two poems, "obituary #1" and "monster woman / woman monster" selected for publication. "obituary #1" won the 2024 Tom Garst Poetry Prize. 

• The Cornell Report, Cornell College, No. 1, Vol. 47, Fall 2023: original song "wildflower darling" (written, produced, and recorded as part of an English class at Cornell in 2023) featured on the inside cover of the print edition and online as an addition to an article titled "18 things we did in 18 days."

• Ghost Town, debut self-written and self-produced album of music (featuring fifteen songs), released independently on January 11, 2023.