Meet The Gardener, Elizabeth R. Blackburn

My professional credits include obituary writer, daycare worker, snail seller, software engineer, homeless camp counselor, costume designer, phone sex operator, chess streamer, and⏤most recently⏤essayist.

Support independent local media! Read my first longform piece, published online by central Ohio nonprofit, Matter News: ‘I am not going to stand before God and say, well, I chickened out’: Reflections on building caring coalitions

For more information, you can explore contemporaneous media documenting the 2022 Camp Shameless project.

A lifelong Rust Belt resident, I'm currently located in Columbus, OH.

About The Erb Garden

This is a space for incomplete essays, notes on The Crumbles, journal entries, 35mm photography, typewriter love, and and curiosity. It is my (very much a work in progress) love letter to the grand tradition of the indie web.

Because I admire the illuminated manuscripts, the randomized layout assets were plucked from the Internet Archive, specifically the collections of the Lowell Textile School.

The drop-cap font was designed by William Morris in the late 1800s for the Kelmscott Press and converted to Truetype font by CHAFOMON. The body text is JMH Typewriter Mono by Jorge Morón.