September 26, 2025
It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 38: Elizabeth Roderick!
Elizabeth Roderick joins us with their series: Tales from Purgatory! We discuss books 1, The Commune, and 2, Deathwalkers, and the intersection of the afterlife and dreaming. We conclude with discussion on helping queer asylum-seeking immigrants.
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Elizabeth Roderick (or LIZ RODERICK when she’s writing YA) grew up as a barefoot ruffian on a fruit orchard near Yakima, in eastern Washington State. After moving all around the West Coast, she now lives in a space crammed full of crystals, dogs, small tinkling bells, and books. She spends her time gossiping with crows, conjuring tulpas, and vaguely wishing she had money.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and organic ag from The Evergreen State College, and worked for many years as a paralegal, interpreter, transcriptionist, editor and farmer. She is a musician and songwriter, and has played in many bands, rocking some instruments she doesn’t even know the real names for, but mostly guitar, bass and keyboards. She has an album of original music entitled Surviving the Rapture.
Elizabeth writes novels, short stories, and memoir which is way more interesting than it should be. Her stories are about love, death, gang warfare, and madness. Her characters tend to be of the type that society generally shuns: addicts, convicts, and the neurodivergent. She believes if you get to know these characters in books, you’ll find them more likable than you originally thought.
She applies Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo method to fiction writing. It often gets a little heavier than what she had in mind, but she chalks it up to forced consciousness expansion.
