biography
Elisabeth Charis (AKA Betty Rivers and other aliases) is a thinker, writer and teacher currently living in England. She has travelled extensively and lived in China, Thailand, Australasia and, most recently, Syria where political unrest forced her to return to the UK.
She has a first class honours degree in English Language and Literature and is a qualified teacher with over ten years’ experience of teaching young people and adults in secondary and tertiary education.
Apart from supporting an emerging community enterprise in Birmingham and working on various schools projects, Elisabeth is currently writing her first novel as well as a play for schools dealing with addiction and other issues and trying to manage the ongoing poetry obsession which keeps her awake at night.
‘My writing explores our relationship with time and place, nature, freedom and responsibility, that good ol’ fashioned notion, ‘love’, the journey we are all on within ourselves and what it means to be a woman, in our world, now. This last is sometimes called feminism but, like the other themes, it is really just a questioning of the world from the only perspective I know. Most importantly, I just try to be honest, though that can be the hardest thing.’