Elizabeth T. Clarke

Elizabeth T. Clarke is a celebrated French educator based in Binghamton, New York. She has spent years fostering a deeply connected classroom community at Binghamton University where her passion for French language and culture is poured into her students.

Driven by her belief that language is rooted in human connection, Elizabeth crafts children’s books that inspire curiosity, joy, and hope. Her appreciation for simplicity in the natural world inspires her writing. A family of mushrooms in the woods, a cluster of wildflowers by the road, a pile of pinecones under an evergreen tree —- all hold beauty and are part of a larger story.

Growing up, she read every Little Golden Book she possibly could and devoured the Baby-Sitters Club series. With a keen eye for detail and a quiet appreciation for beauty, she wrote poetry as a young adolescent. Elizabeth’s vivid imagination and creativity followed her into adulthood.

Though her three children are older now, Elizabeth treasures a children’s book library in their historic home. Rooted in Elementary Education, she has always been an avid collector of books, and is especially drawn to those with themes for the young and old, and everyone in between.

Elizabeth’s books have a thoughtful message for humans of all ages. They are for those who appreciate wonder and whimsy and all of the unassuming treasures found in nature--this is where magic lives.

When she’s not writing or teaching, Elizabeth plays with her two spaniels, tends to her flower gardens, invents new baked goods, harvests seeds, frolics in fields, searches for frogs, or makes her way through the woods.