Liz Rognes

Liz Rognes (she/they)  is a singer/songwriter, composer, teacher, and writer. Her two albums, Red Flags and Topographies, include folk, Americana, and jazz influences, and she is a member of the Spokane band Betsy Rogue. Liz's songs and other works have been performed by the Spokane Symphony, Spokane String Quartet, Minneapolis-based Calliope Women’s Chorus, the Women’s Choir of the University of St. Catherine, and various small ensembles. Liz has worked on Carnegie Hall's Lullaby Project with the Spokane Symphony, performed with Terrain Uncharted, and she composed a short space ballet for Stage Left Theater's production Written in the Stars, featuring the Company Ballet School. Liz co-founded Girls Rock Lab, a Spark Central youth music program that amplifies the voices of girls and non-binary kids, and they are a past recipient of a Spokane Arts Award in Inclusion and the Creative Power Award from Spark Central. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers, and she lives in Spokane with her rock ’n’ roll librarian and their two children. In her day job, she teaches English and Gender Studies at Eastern Washington University.