Emmy-nominated screenwriter, playwright, and Jungian psychotherapist Elizabeth Clark-Stern writes stories that listen to what lies beneath.
Stories that move between the outer world and the inner one: a future running dry, a friendship across the color line, and the quiet voice of dreams.
Climate fiction, 2023
In a world running dry, the last river remembers everything.
In 2100, at the headwaters of the Euphrates, a feminist struggle unfolds over the planet's most precious resource. A novel of survival, power, and the ancient bond between women and water.
Historical fiction
Two girls, one Mississippi summer, and a friendship history couldn't break.
Tupelo, 1955. Dot Dot and Winkie, one Black and one white, find each other in a divided town and carry their bond through decades of change, loss, and return.
Two novellas, 2010
Safari to Mara and Aria of the Horned Toad
Two luminous novellas where the senses, dreams, and intuition lead the way, shaped by archetypal psychology and years of clinical work with dreams.
Dramas that bring history's hidden women and great minds to the stage, where the psyche becomes theater.
Play
A Story of Toni Wolff and Emma Jung
Carl Jung's wife and his collaborator and lover, bound for forty years in a complex alliance and rivalry that shaped analytical psychology.
Play
A Play of Teresa of Avila and Alma de Leon
A Catholic mystic and a Jewish convert meet across faith lines during the Spanish Inquisition, and find in each other a mirror for the soul.
Play
Viktor Frankl Meets Edith Stein
An imagined meeting in an Auschwitz storage shed, where a philosopher and a psychiatrist search for meaning in the darkest place on earth.
Play, prose and poetry
Reflections of the Feminine
A stage play about the sculptor Camille Claudel, paired with prose and poetry on the feminine psyche, moving through phases of light and shadow.
Elizabeth Clark-Stern grew up writing stories and plays, which ultimately led to a career as a television/film screenwriter. Her produced credentials include the critically acclaimed All I Could See From Where I Stood (PBS), Having Babies II (ABC) and Help Wanted (CBS), the latter nominated for an Emmy. She is particularly proud of a documentary, Home From the Eastern Sea, which she wrote and co-produced with an all-female creative team. Originally aired on PBS, now distributed through Kanopy, the film was honored with a NAFTA American Scene Award, and a Cine Golden Eagle.
In tandem with screenwriting, she worked on novels, drawn to the dual reality of inner and outer life. This eventually led to a new calling as a psychotherapist. She worked with the most vulnerable populations, seeing first-hand the tragic impact of class, race, gender, and mental health inequality. She studied the depth psychology of Carl Jung, and opened a practice offering the healing modalities of sand play and dream interpretation. This work brought her writing to a whole new level, a world of symbols and archetypal forces not limited to the conventions of time and space. She was presented with an Achievement in the Arts Award from the Seattle Psychoanalytic Community for producing and publishing four plays and Soul Stories, a collection of two novellas.
Out of the Shadows, her play of the two women in Carl Jung's life, his wife Emma Jung, and his collaborator and lover, Toni Wolff, was performed in 2007 at the International Jungian Congress in Cape Town. In 2011, Out of the Shadows played in Seattle, followed by a performance in New Orleans for the Archetypal Theater Company. This was followed in 2012 with a performance at the International Jungian Congress in Copenhagen of On the Doorstep of the Castle, a story of Teresa of Avila and Alma de Leon.
In 2023, Elizabeth's futuristic science fiction novel, The Language of Water was published by Aqueduct Press. Reviews on Amazon are conflated with the publication of a memoir of the same title, so readers need to be discerning to sort out the ones written for Elizabeth Clark-Stern's The Language of Water.
Conversations on depth psychology, theater, and the stories that live between them.
Interview, Depth Insights
In this feature hosted by Depth Insights, Elizabeth explains how her background as a Jungian psychotherapist allowed her to explore the psychological reality of Carl Jung, his wife Emma, and his collaborator Toni Wolff.
Audio interview
Listen to Elizabeth discuss her historical stage play, On the Doorstep of the Castle, and the meeting of a mystic and a convert during the Inquisition.
Press
Print magazine interviews, including her Babymap profile, alongside radio interview summaries and press highlights.
Literary representation
Senior Literary Agent, P.S. Literary Agency
For publishing, rights, and representation inquiries, please contact Elizabeth's agent directly.
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