Following retirement from the English Department of the University of Kansas, Elizabeth Schultz remains committed to writing about the people and the places she loves, including Herman Melville, her mother, and her friends, Kansas wetlands and prairies, Michigan's Higgins Lake, Japan, where she lived for six years, all creatures and oceans and islands everywhere. She has published two scholarly books, five books of poetry, a memoir, a collection of short stories, and a collection of essays. Her scholarly and creative work appears in numerous journals and reviews. She is a dedicated advocate for the arts and the environment. "Unpainted to the Last": Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art, 1995.Shoreline: Seasons at the Lake (memoir), 2001.Edited and "Introduction" with Haskell Springer, Melville and Women, 2006.Conversations: Art Into Poetry at the Spencer Museum of Art, 2006.The Nature of Kansas Lands (essays), ed. Beverly Worster, 2008.Her Voice (poetry), 2008.The White-Skin Deer: Hoopa Stories, 2009.The Sauntering Eye: Kansas Meditations (poetry), 2014Mrs. Noah Takes the Helm (poetry), 2014.The Quickening (poetry), 2014.