2024 Den of Distinction Inductee Liz Scott Monaghan '64

Liz Scott Monaghan ’64 retired after 15 years as an instructor of journalism at Loyola. As a student in the 1960s, she was editor of The Maroon, and as a graduate, she was its advisor. She is a columnist and contributing editor for New Orleans Magazine, and the author of two humor books (“Never Heave Your Bosom in a Front-Hook Bra” and “Never Sleep with a Fat Man”), published by St. Martin’s Press, and “Never Clean Your House During Hurricane Season,” published to raise money for St. Bernard Parish after Katrina. The books feature her alter ego, Modine Gunch. Modine still appears monthly in New Orleans Magazine and is due to put out another book soon. In 2004, she helped edit and fact-check Sister Helen Prejean’s book, “Death of Innocents,” and later worked part-time as a press agent to help publicize the book.

She has won numerous awards, both local and national, for her own writing. She co-authored and edited “Cookbook for the Hungry,” described as "a wickedly delicious collection of recipes and cooking tips, spiced liberally with political wit, served up by Louisiana Democrats,” also published under Signature Design and the self-published “Getting into New Orleans Seafood,” with Yvette Autin Warren. She produces a weekly e-newsletter for the Northshore Democratic Women's Club in St. Tammany and is a prolific poster on social media. She also loves eating snowballs with her grandchildren on the North Shore and sipping Frozen Irish Coffees on the South Shore without them.

Please join us in honoring Liz Scott Monaghan '64 at the 2024 Den of Distinction Reception on Thursday, May 9, 2024, at 6 p.m. at The Chloe. Register here!