Elizabeth Metz
Illustrator, writer, nonprofit staffer, Reds fan, bookworm, pedestrian, houseplant and voting rights enthusiast. She/her. What, people who like baseball can't like books?
📍Cincinnati, OH
https://www.elizabeth-metz.com
- Hi #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I'm an #unagented author-illustrator seeking representation. I ❤️ colorful textural art, funny stories for kids, and PIZZA. My go-to order is mushroom, pineapple, jalapeño. When I'm cooking, it's mushroom, basil, red pepper flakes. What's yours? elizabeth-metz.com.
- I'm using this quote in my message to my member of Congress tonight, attributed specifically to "former Cincinnati Red Sean Doolittle." (This article is a few days old, but I only just stumbled on it!)
- Reposted by Elizabeth MetzOne. I have one school visit scheduled for the 2025-26 school year. Before the book banning movement and the politics of hate metastasized, I visited 40, 50, and 60 schools each year. This regime of monstrous evildoers is actively trying to erase LGBTQ+ stories, identities, and humans. Resist
- Reposted by Elizabeth MetzThis or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D. Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate." I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
- Mine's the Ohio River, obviously. But when I wrote an autobiography as a class project in middle school, I called it "On the Banks of Mill Creek." Are creeks rivers? If so, that's my hyperlocal answer. www.americanrivers.org/2017/09/urba...
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- Reposted by Elizabeth MetzSilverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12 ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12 ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14 Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23
- Hi #KidLitArtPostcard Day! Dark times (literal and metaphorical) are great times to make something with your hands, don't you agree? ❄️✂️ I'm an #unagented author-illustrator seeking representation. I ❤️ colorful textural art, funny stories for kids, and a good project. More 🎨: elizabeth-metz.com.
- Just throwing out there that I ✨love✨ recommending books. If anyone needs suggestions.
- Oh, man. Without thinking TOO hard about this... The Good Place Mad Men Agents of SHIELD Crazy Ex-Girlfriend New Girl, esp. the last few minutes Anne With an E was canceled too soon (RIP) but its final episode is A+. I really liked the Chuck finale and learned recently some people hate it??
- Assuming I'm being sworn in to some kind of public service role, but also I'm still very much ME... I'd go with a quartet of picture books from my childhood that taught me how to be in community.
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- Art for your Winter Solstice timeline! For years, I've made art to mark the start of Spring Training. The last few, I've marked the Solstice the same way. I realized today these moments are alike: something good (daylight, baseball) is JUST around the corner. That's hope. Let's celebrate it. ✨
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- Reposted by Elizabeth MetzWhile Amazon is investing billions of dollars to expand AI, independent bookstores are hosting community events, personally recommending books to readers, and providing a space that is safe and welcoming during a time when we need them most. Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.
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- The Princess Bride is my favorite movie. I don't think most people saw the "home movie" filmed during COVID. It's a joy and showcases how widely loved the film is. As we're mourning Rob Reiner today, I wanted to share it. Watch to the end--he's in the final scene. 💔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=29s1...
- Reposted by Elizabeth Metzthe people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
- Amtrak reports Mardi Gras service among most successful ever mynbc15.com/news/local/amtrak-p…
- Happy last #KidLitArtPostcard day of 2025! For this snowy Ohio December, please enjoy a punny lil sketch pair. I'm an #unagented author-illustrator seeking representation. I ❤️ colorful textural art, funny stories for kids, and Cincinnati chili (...but I prefer coneys!) 🎨: www.elizabeth-metz.com
- Reposted by Elizabeth MetzNEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
- Category 1: O Holy Night Category 2: Silver Bells... or maybe The Christmas Song Adding my own category 3, obscure original only-on-one-album song: Elf's Lament by the Barenaked Ladies
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- Bel Canto & The Kite Runner helped me re-learn how to read novels, after college killed my childhood spark. Then just before COVID, Evvie Drake Starts Over re-taught me how to read FOR FUN. My book total in 2020 was almost triple 2019, and this book (+ discovering the Libby app!) kickstarted that.
- THIS. This right here is why the arts matter and we can’t concede any ground to AI. Poetry setting the stage for a landmark judicial ruling. That’s all human creativity, all real-person imagination. (This whole thread is worth a read. ❤️ to beautiful Chicago, where I recently spent some time.)
- Hi #KidLitArtPostcard! As we turn back the clock and face down winter, now is the time for satisfying answers to age-old questions, no? I'm an #unagented author-illustrator seeking representation. I ❤️ colorful textural art, funny stories for kids, and chickens. More 🎨: elizabeth-metz.com.
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- "I want to smell the onions and the mustard" is how I'm going to order cheese coneys from now on.
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- Cincinnati hasn't elected a Republican mayor since the 1970s, so this was always how it was going to go. But the justice, 'tis indeed poetic, so by all means enjoy yourselves people of bluesky. 😂
- Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
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- I couldn't go to a #NoKings protest today, but I'm so proud and inspired by all of you who showed up. So is the tiny reading frog statue that lives in my bathroom. 🐸🙌 We both thank you for standing up against fascism!!
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- Still enjoying browsing this post's quotes today. But I see so many Picasso mentions, which I think is mostly about the cultural hive mind lumping him in w/ other "museum" artists (Van Gogh, Vermeer, da Vinci) even though they're all WILDLY different eras. Picasso's a 20th c guy! Yay art history!
