An award-winning author of fantastical tales rooted in history and mythology, Liz began as a pre-med student who loved science but realized that her path was not going to be in medicine. During school, she had worked part-time as salesperson at the Azzedine Alaia store on Rodeo Drive and upon graduation, she decided to pursue her second love, designer fashion. Shortly after, she got her first full-time job (still on Rodeo Drive) at the brand-new Ralph Lauren Beverly Hills flagship store. She grew close to the creative people of the visual display department, visiting flea markets with them on the weekends, searching for vintage treasures with which to decorate the store. 

She worked there for a couple of years before moving to New York to explore another love: literature. As an agent-trainee in the William Morris mailroom, she was still drawn to design and spent her lunch breaks combing the shops on 47th Street for pearls and sterling silver wire. During her free time, she dedicated countless evenings and weekends weaving together necklaces, earrings, and bracelets to give to her friends.

After more than a decade in New York, she moved back to Los Angeles, where she shifted her focus to film. And yet, every weekend she would visit various flea markets with her old Ralph Lauren friends, hunting for treasures to decorate her 30s era Hollywood apartment, slowly building a collection of vintage and antique jewelry that leaned heavily on the figural, particularly animal jewelry of the Victorian era.

Ten years later, she retired from the agency business to pursue her own creative adventures. She got an MFA in Creative writing and soon started publishing fiction that veered toward the fantastical and history, the mythological and magical. The flea market and antique store hunting continued, and the collection grew. 

Finally in 2020, she began sketching, and weaving together all her years of experience in designer retail, all those trips to flea markets and antique stores… 

The name of the collection comes from Aesop, an enslaved person living in Ancient Greece, who created a vast and magical world through the telling of tales featuring animal protagonists.