Welcome to my corner of the internet! Everyone calls me Betsy, though I was officially born an Elizabeth. I started my career as a 24-year-old journalist for the Associated Press in Athens, Greece, and have been writing all sorts of things since. My stories have appeared in The New York Times’ Modern Love column, The Boston Globe, Food & Wine, The Washington Post and New York Magazine. I was also delighted to have comedian/actress Abbi Jacobson choose my Modern Love column for the podcast.
My debut memoir, Moving to My Dog’s Hometown, is forthcoming in January 2026 from Rootstock Publishing, a small press based in Montpelier. A Kirkus-recommended pick, Seven Days called the book “a feel-good story with some bite.”
I also give astrology readings. I’m a Gemini who began learning the language of the stars at Maha Rose in Brooklyn. I’ve written numerous essays on astrology, including one for the LA Times about what it was like to do my mother’s chart, decades after she died.
I am the daughter of a Hungarian immigrant, and I grew up near Youngstown, Ohio, home of the best pizza you’ll ever have. I live in Vermont with my husband and our three dogs in an old farmhouse that was dragged to its current position by oxen a long ass time ago. I am an avid birder, and I volunteer at the Center for Wild Bird Rehabilitation at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, where I feed baby birds and care for injured owls, hawks, vultures and kestrels. You can find me on Substack as Moonlight in Vermont.
(Photo credit: Brad Fowler, Provincetown)
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