E. L. Briscoe was born in LaPlata, MD in Charles County. Briscoe attended Charles County public schools and continued on to study visual art at Charles County Community College (currently the College of Southern Maryland), Morgan State University, (‘95) B.A., Howard University, (‘98) M.F.A. Briscoe is the coordinator of the Visual Arts Program at Morgan State University and has artworks in The James E. Lewis Museum of Art collection The Jean and Robert Steele Collection of African American Prints, David Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park and has exhibited at the African American Museum, Dallas, TX, SoWeBo Gallery, Baltimore, The Creative Alliance, National Black Art Show, SOHO, NY, Art-O-Matic, Washington, D.C., The Nina Simone Experience, Atlanta GA as well as others. Briscoe has also curated exhibitions such as The Evolution of Depression; revisited, drawings by Larry Scott at the James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Energies and Entities, paintings by Doris C. Kennedy and Baltimore City Arts: Turning the Corner