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 Abbi Jacobson choose my Modern Love column for the podcast.
My 2026 debut memoir, Moving to My Dog’s Hometown, is a Kirkus-recommended pick, a finalist for Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Prize, and was called “a feel-good story with some bite” by the Vermont newsweekly Seven Days. I am happy to personally mail you a signed copy! Please send me a message if that’s something you’re interested in.
I also give astrology readings. I’m a Gemini who began learning the language of the stars at Maha Rose in Brooklyn ten years ago. 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 also write a Substack about astrology and creativity called Heavens to Betsy.
The daughter of a Hungarian immigrant, 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 used to be a barn and was dragged to its current position by oxen in 1906. I love birds and work at the Center for Wild Bird Rehabilitation at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, where I take care of songbirds, owls, hawks, vultures, kestrels and other animal wonders of the sky.
This profile picture of me is almost 10 years old, but it’s the best one I’ve taken in that time, so just use your imagination to ponder how I might have aged since.
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