Background
Elayne Clift was born on March 20, 1943, in Woodbury, New Jersey, United States.
Elayne Clift was born on March 20, 1943, in Woodbury, New Jersey, United States.
Elayne Clift studied at the University of Maryland.
Clift worked as Social worker George Washington University Hospital, Washington, from 1970 to 1975, and Program Director of the National Women's Health Network, from 1979 to 1981. She also was a Mid-Atlantic director of the B'nai Brith Women, from 1981 to 1982. She worked at a Chair Women and Health Roundtable, in Washington, from 1981 to 1983. From 1983-1985, she was at the Founding chair Health Action Network, Montgomery County, Maryland. Clift also worked a consultant, during 1982-1985, and deputy director of the Healthcom Project Academy for Educational Development, from 1985 to 1990. Since 1990, she began to write.
Clift began writing for publication in 1985, as a result of a prolonged and painful period of unemployment - the reality of her life at the time. One of her first published articles led to her covering the third Decade for Women conference in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1985; this event influenced Clift's commitment to global gender issues, which largely defines her writing around social issues. She also enjoys writing in a variety of literary genres, particularly creative nonfiction.
From 1993-1999, Clift worked as a lecturer of Yale University School Public Health. Then, she was an adjunct assistant professor at George Washington University Center for International Health, in Washington, from 1994 to 1997, and adjunct assistant professor Emerson College, from 1996 to 1998.
Since 1998, Elayne was an adjunct professor adult degree program at Vermont College. She conducted women's studies program University Vermont, from 1998 to 2000, and since 1999, worked at the Keene State College. She also worked at the University of Connecticut School Public Health, since 1998, and Middleburg College, since 2005.
Elayne Clift is known as the author of two short story collections, two poetry collections, and a memoir, published under the imprint OGN Publications, her creative work appears in numerous anthologies and literary magazines internationally.
Having been published in the Washington Post, Boston Globe and Christian Science Monitor, she now aspires to just one byline in The New York Times.
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Quotations: “I write to give voice to my own experience and observations and to give voice to others who may lack a means or a sense of entitlement to speak out. My work is influenced by current events, timeless and universal themes, and the reality of women’s lives."
Cift is a member American Public Health Association and International Women's Writers Guild.
Elayne Clift married Arnold Clift, on April 8, 1972. They have two children, Rachel and David.
