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, Australia, New Zealand 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 (QTS and TESOL) with many years of experience teaching young people and adults in a variety of educational contexts.
Elisabeth currently teaches English and Creative Writing alongside writing a novel and a collection of poetry. Watch this space for upcoming projects.
‘My writing explores our relationship with time and place; nature; freedom and responsibility; that good old 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 also 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 try to be honest, though that can be the hardest thing.’