About Elizabeth White Olsen

Elizabeth White Olsen

Elizabeth White Olsen is the co-founder of GO Native Landscaping, LLC, along with her husband, Glenn Olsen. Through GO Native’s on-site consultations, custom landscape designs, presentations, and classes, she and her husband have supported hundreds of homeowners, business owners, and municipal and nonprofit employees choose sustainable, bird-and-butterfly-friendly landscapes. She’s achieved Native Plant Society of Texas Landscape Certification Levels 1 and 3. In 2021 White Olsen was trained and certified as a Texas Master Naturalist. She holds two Master’s of Fine Arts in Writing degrees and, in 2014, founded Writespace Literary Arts Center in Houston. The author of the poetry collection, Given Words, her first nonfiction book, Bringing Butterflies Home: Gardening to Heal Our Yards and Ourselves, launches in March 2026.