David Bosnick (1983-present)

Rosenberg was born on Long Island to parents Ross and Lucille Rosenberg. She grew up in Syosset, New York with her older sister, Ellen. It was her sister Ellen who taught her to read when Liz was only two. She and her father would illustrate and write books for their youngest. Rosenberg's interest in poetry and literature started at an early age and her first poem came at eight. She wrote her first "novel" at age nine, in the fourth grade, but did not publish a novel till ], a Young Adult novel it took her twenty years to complete.

Her father owned a tool manufacturing company in Smithtown Long Island, which he ran with several cousins.ROSCO Tools was sold to Vermont American in the l980s. Her mother worked briefly in publishing, and then stayed home to care for her two children. Her maternal aunt, Madlyn Cates, was a well-established actress who appeared on Broadway, in tv shows and films, including the famous "concierge" bit in Mel Brooks' original film The Producers. Madlyn's middle daughter, Katherine Kates, has continued the acting tradition, and has been featured in numerous tv shows, commercials and films, including one turn as the famous "Bobka Lady" on Seinfeld. Rosenberg's paternal uncle, Anton Rosenberg, a painter, was supposedly the model for a central character in Jack Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums and is often thought to be the "angel-headed hipster" about whom Allen Ginsberg wrote in his poem "Howl."