Elizabeth B. Soutter

Coaching more than 200 writers in the last five years, Soutter has taught creative writing at Boston University and journalism at Harvard Summer School.   She currently teaches the Harvard Extension School’s first course on blogging.

Soutter holds a BA in political science with honors from Johns Hopkins University and is a graduate of their writing seminars program.  She served as an intern at the NASA news room of the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.  In 1998 Soutter was named legislative assistant to Congressman Helen Chenoweth-Hage and then served as her press secretary and speech writer until the Congressman’s retirement in 2001.

Soutter hosted a daily two hour political talk radio show in Morehead City, North Carolina from 2001-2003, and was a freelance op-ed writer with columns appearing in the Raleigh News and Observer, the New Hampshire Union Leader, the Carteret County News-Times.   Soutter started blogging in 2004.  She is the author and owner of Motherhood is Not for Wimps.   She has been featured in Parenting magazine, CNN.com and the Huffington Post.

Soutter is married to attorney Franklin Schwarzer, and they are the parents of three daughters under the age of eight.