Elayne Clift

Elayne Clift is a writer, author, lecturer, doula, traveler, activist, liberal, feminist, internationally experienced health communications specialist, wife, mom, and woman of a certain age. Her first novel, Hester's Daughters - based on The Scarlet Letter - was published in 2012. In 2014, Elayne Clift and lead author Christine Morton published "Birth Ambassadors: Doulas and the Re-emergence of Woman-supported Childbirth in the U.S." through Praclarus Press (Jan. 2014). In addition to being a...See more

Elayne Clift is a writer, author, lecturer, doula, traveler, activist, liberal, feminist, internationally experienced health communications specialist, wife, mom, and woman of a certain age. Her first novel, Hester's Daughters - based on The Scarlet Letter - was published in 2012. In 2014, Elayne Clift and lead author Christine Morton published "Birth Ambassadors: Doulas and the Re-emergence of Woman-supported Childbirth in the U.S." through Praclarus Press (Jan. 2014). In addition to being a regular columnist for the Keene (NH) Sentinel and Brattleboro (Vt.) Commons, she is a frequent contributor to Women's Feature Service, Women's Media Center, Vermont Magazine and a reviewer for The New York Journal of Books. The author of two short story collections, two poetry collections, and a memoir, published under the imprint OGN Publications, her creative work appears in numerous anthologies and literary magazines internationally. Having been published in the Washington Post, Boston Globe and Christian Science Monitor, she now aspires to just one byline in The New York Times. See less