Elizabeth Peavey: “Quartet”

Continuing the 2026 Downeast Storytellers season, Elizabeth Peavey will focus on the themes of love, loss, and letting go through stories of events in her own life and her hard-won wisdom in this presentation.

Downeast Storytellers is a collaborative venture among the Eastport Arts Center, the Sipayik Museum at Pleasant Point, and The Quoddy Tides. 

About the Presenter

Elizabeth Peavey is a celebrated Maine writer, performer, and educator. Her one-woman show, My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother, ran for six years and received the Maine Literary Award for Best Drama. She is also a featured at performer at live storytelling events.

Peavey is the author of three books, has appeared in several anthologies, and has written countless print columns and features for numerous publications, including Down East magazine, where she served as contributing editor for 20 years. Her current monthly column, “Out There,” appears in The Bollard magazine. thebollard.com

Peavey has taught creative nonfiction, personal narrative, humor writing, and public speaking and performance to audiences ranging from undergraduates and MFA candidates to new Mainers, prison inmates, corporate executives, older adults, and middle school boys. She is a frequent keynote and guest lecturer at conferences and schools, and she’s provided story training to such organizations as Jobs for Maine Graduates, the Boys and Girls Club of Southern Maine, the Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute, and the John T. Gorman Foundation – proving we all have a story to tell.