Before starting Raintree Writing Services in 2007,  Leib was Creative Director for Spectrum Media Communications Group. She produced a monthly family magazine with the locally owned Community News Publications and prior to that, spent three years in corporate banking as Communications Assistant with JPMorganChase. She began her career as a Corporate Fundraising Manager for Tampa's NPR/PBS affiliate.

Leib has a B.A. from Eckerd College in English and Creative Writing specializing in poetry with direction from the nationally recognized poet and Tampa Bay treasure, Peter Meinke. She tested the idea of pursuing a graduate degree at USF by taking a few humanities, communications and creative writing graduate classes in the early 90's before enrolling in a playwriting class taught by Mark E. Leib.  Elizabeth married Mark in 1995 at Kol Ami Synagogue. They were blessed a with a beautiful son.