Elizabeth Burk is a psychologist and a native New Yorker who divides her time between family in New York and a home and husband in southwest Louisiana. Her debut full length poetry book, UNMOORED, published in November 2024 by Texas Review Press, is arranged loosely in the form of a memoir describing life growing up in New York City, her experiences as a northerner living in Louisiana and poems on attempting to age with humor and grace. She has three previous collections: LEARNING TO LOVE LOUISIANA, LOUISIANA PURCHASE and DUET - Poet & Photographer, a collaboration with her photographer husband, Leo Touchet. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems, prose pieces, and reviews have been widely published in various journals and anthologies, such as Atlanta Review, Rattle, Southern Poetry Anthology, Louisiana Literature, Arkansas Review, Passager, Pithead Chapel, Naugatuck River Review, PANK, Mom Egg Review and elsewhere. Leo Touchet is a self-taught photographer and native of Abbeville, Louisiana. Following are some of the places his photographs have been: Books: REJOICE WHEN YOU DIE - The New Orleans Jazz Funerals, (LSU Press 1998). Seven books PEOPLE AMONG US, AT THE RACES, CHASING SHADOWS, FLOWERS, CHILDREN AMONG US, THE LIFE OF A DUCK and STILL MOTION with Jiaqing Zheng. Collections: Sir Elton John Photo Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, Houston Fine Arts Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale (France), New York Public Library, and other private collections. Publications: Life, Time, Fortune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Oxford American, Der Stern (Germany), Panorama (Italy) Exhibits: (Acadiana Center for the Arts-Louisiana), Arizona State University, Everson Museum, Louisiana State University, Mint Museum, Public Theater (New York), Royal Ontario Museum, University of Oklahoma, University of Texas, U.S. Bicentennial Exhibit and REGARDS et MEMOIRES (Annual International Photo Expo in Arles, France).