Elizabeth DeSchryver (Author) Elizabeth DeSchryver is an award-winning playwright, short story author and poet. She earned her Ph.D. in English at Northwestern University, and then logically spent 25 years in technology consulting, ending her career as a Senior Methods Architect at Accenture. She took early retirement to pursue her love of writing, and is grateful to be doing something that she can talk about at parties without collecting blank stares. She is now a Network Playwright with Chicago Dramatists and a founding member of the Telling Humans Playwright Studio. Her short plays have been performed in and around Chicago. Her first full-length play, An Unbuilt Life, will receive its world premiere at the Washington Stage Guild in April 2024.