Liz Chen Frech lives in the Santa Barbara area and works in the Classics Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She also works for the local high school as an assistant coach of tennis.

She has been writing poetry since she was 8 and has one son, who attends UCLA. Her poems have appeared in various journals such as Modern Haiku, Brussels Sprout, Dragonfly: East/West Haiku Quarterly, Wind Chimes, Ko, Cicada, Wide Open Magazine, and Catharsis.