Elizabeth Albert is an associate professor at St. John’s University in Queens, New York, where she teaches in the Institute for Core Studies and the Department of Art and Design. She is a visual artist, writer, and curator based in Brooklyn. Her paintings and works on paper have been exhibited nationally, and are in the collections of the Butler Institute and the Naples Art Museum. She has received grants and fellowships from the NEA/ Mid-Atlantic Arts Council, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Furthermore Grants in Publishing. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City’s Forgotten Waterfront (Damiani, 2016.) She is an active member of the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, where she has been volunteering with her students since 2010.