Liesel Litzenburger's essays and stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. Carnegie Mellon University Press published her first collection of short stories, Now You Love Me, in 2001. She has written and reviewed for The Chicago Tribune and The Detroit Free Press.

Currently an Assistant Professor of English at Central Michigan University, she teaches graduate and undergraduate creative writing. Ms. Litzenburger has also taught writing at everal other colleges and universities, including the University of Michigan, and held a position as Acting Chair of the Creative Writing Program at the Interlochen Arts Academy. She served as the 2001 Writer-in-Residence at New College of the University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee campus, a distinguished residential college that serves as the honors college of the State University System. The recipient of a 2003 Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs Creative Artist Grant for fiction writing, Ms. Litzenburger is at work on a new novel.