Elizabeth grew up reading, writing, and shooting in East Tennessee. After graduating from Amherst College, she became a writer and a staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly. Her nonfiction work has been published in The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and GlobalPost, among others. She is a graduate of Grub Street’s MFA-level Novel Incubator program, under Michelle Hoover and Lisa Borders, where her 2019 debut novel, Holding On To Nothing, was workshopped.
Elizabeth is total badass mom of 4 (or maybe 5, 9, or 12 at this point?), the biggest Dolly Parton fan you’ll ever meet, and one of our absolute favorite human beings.