Elizabeth McCracken spent nearly thirty years in public education as a teacher, instructional leader, and district administrator. Over the course of her career, she held multiple leadership roles, eventually becoming Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction for a large Midwestern school district, where she helped lead academic improvement efforts and supported educators serving thousands of students.
Her professional life placed her in rooms where leadership, responsibility, and human complexity often collided—experiences that deeply inform her writing.
Elizabeth holds two bachelor’s degrees and a master’s degree from the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a specialist degree in educational leadership from the University of Central Missouri.
Between Rooms is her debut book. Her writing explores resilience, responsibility, and the complicated ways people learn to carry more than they should.
She lives in Blue Springs, Missouri, with her husband, Lance Tryon, their two sons, Drake and Peyton, and three large dogs. These days she spends more time writing, golfing badly but enthusiastically, bowling with friends, and painting than she ever allowed herself during her years in public education. She is currently working on her next book, a work of fiction.
I’m Elizabeth McCracken, and this is Between Rooms — a podcast about the spaces we survive, the ones we outgrow, and the ones we finally learn to build for ourselves.
Each week, I talk with women who have lived through grief, rupture, caregiving, burnout, betrayal, reinvention, and the quiet catastrophes that rearrange a life.
We are not here to tie pain in a bow. We are here to ask what it taught us, what it cost us, what we had to release, and who we became after the room changed.
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