Liz Pardo

Biography

Liz Pardo is a left-handed, multi-racial designer, tutor, and writer, originally from Southern California. Currently living in the Midwest, Liz recently received her third academic degree in Visual Communications. She intends to use this degree to unlock her students’ critical thinking skills through visual/virtual worlds, such as video games. She generally writes flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and sometimes longer prose.

Books

Confident Idiot: A Poetry Collection
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 680. Language: English. Published: January 7, 2024 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Poetry - single author
Confident Idiot was written between 2022 and 2023, as a series of post-it note poems. Liz, when overwhelmed or deeply moved by emotion, due to exterior or interior stressors, writes short, loud poems on post-it notes regarding the subjects that haunt and plague her.
This Sorry Self: A Poetry Collection (Year One and Year Two of the Pandemic)
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 2,310. Language: English. Published: January 1, 2022 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
This Sorry Self chronicles author Liz Pardo's first two years of the coronavirus pandemic, touching on themes of fear, loneliness, pain, joy, isolation, love, and discomfort. Liz worked in retail in Midwest America throughout most of the pandemic, and saw the worst that humankind has to offer.
Tiny: A Very Small Short Story Collection
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 2,630. Language: English. Published: June 13, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
Tiny: A Very Small Short Story Collection is exactly what it sounds like—a small collection of five short stories, two of those short stories dialogue only. Tiny was Liz's childhood nickname (one of many), provided by one of her older brothers.
Hello, Stupid Heart: A Poetry Collection
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 1,490. Language: English. Published: September 24, 2015 . Categories: Poetry » Themes & motifs » Love, Poetry » American poetry » General
Written mainly about her romantic entanglements, Hello, Stupid Heart is a collection of 13 poems found hidden in an old journal, encompassing just under a year in the life of Liz Pardo.
Violent Impulses: A Short Story Collection
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 15,200. Language: American English. Published: August 26, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
In the newest version of Violent Impulses, author Liz Pardo brings you seven short stories that examine small, brutal interactions between humans. Violent Impulses was the first e-book Liz published via Smashwords.