Elizabeth Clark-Stern

Elizabeth Clark-Stern grew up writing stories and plays, which ultimately led to a career as a television/film screenwriter. Her produced credentials include the critically acclaimed All I Could See From Where I Stood (PBS), Having Babies II (ABC) and Help Wanted (CBS),the latter nominated for an Emmy. She is particularly proud of a documentary, Home From the Eastern Sea, which she wrote and co-produced with an all-female creative team. Originally aired on PBS, now distributed through Kanopy, the film was honored with a NAFTA American Scene Award, and a Cine Golden Eagle. In tandem with screenwriting, she worked on novels, drawn to the duel reality of inner and outer life. This eventually led to a new calling as a psychotherapist. She worked with the most vulnerable populations, seeing first-hand the tragic impact of class, race, gender, and mental health inequality. She studied the depth psychology of Carl Jung, and opened a practice offering the healing modalities of sand play and dream interpretation. This work brought her writing to a whole new level, a world of symbols and archetypal forces not limited to the conventions of time and space. She was presented with an Achievement in the Arts Award from the Seattle Psychoanalytic Community for producing and publishing four plays and Soul Stories, a collection of two novellas. Out of the Shadows, her play of the two women in Carl Jung's life, his wife Emma Jung, and his collaborator and lover, Toni Wolfe, was performed in 2007 at the International Jungian Congress in Cape Town. In 2011, Out of the Shadows played in Seattle, followed by a performance in New Orleans for the Archetypal Theater Company. This was followed in 2012 with a performance at the International Jungian Congress in Copenhagen of On the Doorstep of the Castle, a story of Teresa of Avila and Alma de Leon. In 2023, Elizabeth's futuristic science fiction novel, The Language of Water was published by Aqueduct Press. Reviews on Amazon are conflated with the publication of a memoir of the same title, so readers need to be discerning to sort out the ones written for Elizabeth Clark-Stern's The Language of Water. The author's dearest treasure is her loving and laughing family For more information see her website with a link to her blog at www.elizabethclarkstern.com.