Liz Cunningham

I am a writer and illustrator living in the San Francisco Bay area. My focus is writing and illustration that raises awareness about ocean conservation. I grew up outside of New York City and received a B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Drawn by the openness of the vast Pacific landscape and California’s innovative spirit, I moved west, in search of what felt like some “intangible, infinite thing.” I worked as an editor and writer for over fifteen years and authored my first book, Talking Politics: Choosing the President in the Television Age (Praeger), a series of oral-history interviews with top television journalists such as Tom Brokaw, Larry King and Robin MacNeil.

I am currently working on a series of essays and a book about ocean conservation. I have written for newspapers, magazines and journals such as The East Bay Express, The Outward Bound International Journal, Times of the Islands, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Marin Poetry Center Anthology. My drawings have been exhibited at a variety of venues including the Berkeley Art Center, the COA Ethel Blum Gallery, Fort Mason Center and the Oakland Museum. I am also active in the field of education as the founder of KurtHahn.org, a Web archive devoted to the founder of Outward Bound and I recently joined the Board of Outward Bound Peacebuilding. My husband and I make our home in the San Francisco Bay area with our dog Zack.

More information about my work can be found at http://www.lizcunningham.net