Liz Asch

Liz Asch teaches creative embodiment practices and methods of presence as a consultant, assistant, writer, collaborator, and acupuncturist. Working with the premise that the body is a renewable resource for the life of the mind, Liz is dedicated to discovering ways in which we can live more comfortably in our bodies and in the world.

Liz holds a BA from Vassar, an MFA from Eastern Oregon University and a Masters in Acupuncture and herbal medicine. She is the host and creator of BODY LAND METAPHOR MEDICINE a dreamy archive of guided visualizations informed by surrealist art, pre-modern medicine, and somatic methods of embodiment, which help listeners center, self-regulate, and cultivate qi (which gives the sensation of acupuncture without the needles). It is free on Apple podcasts, Amazon, Spotify, Vurbl, and Stitcher.)

Liz is the author of Your Salt on My Lips: (Mostly) Queer Literary Erotica (Cleis Press 2021), a celebration of eros across the spectrum of sexuality, with an emphasis on radical communication of desire and consent, and the healing powers of self permission.

A 2018 Pushcart nominee, Liz is the recipient of the 2017 Willamette Writer's Kay Snow Award for First Place in Nonfiction (judged by Elizabeth Lyons), the winner of the 2017 Phoebe Creative Nonfiction Contest (judged by Elena Passarello), and she received honorable mention from the 2018 Pigeon Pages Essay Contest, judged by Garrard Conley, the 2016 Montana Book Festival’s Regional Emerging Writers Contest and the 2016 Calyx’s Margarita Donnelly Prize. Liz is the grateful recipient of a 2022 RACC grant and is a part of the 2022-2023 Art/Lab cohort of Jewish Portland artists.