Elaine Jarvik was a newspaper reporter for 30 years, specializing in long-form stories and profiles. A few years before she left journalism she started writing plays, beginning with the form known as the 10-minute play; and in 2008, one of these little plays was chosen for the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theater of Louisville. Since then she has written 8 full-length plays, which have been produced at the Salt Lake Acting Company, Plan-B Theatre, and Pygmalion Productions, and at Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe. In 2021 she co-taught a Creative Aging Playwriting class with Julie Jensen, Debora Threedy and Kay Shean.