Elizabeth Benedict

Elizabeth Benedict is a graduate of Barnard College and a bestselling novelist, journalist, teacher of creative writing, editor, and writing coach. She has published five acclaimed novels, including the bestseller Almost and the National Book Award finalist Slow Dancing, a classic book on writing fiction,The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers, in print since 1996, and hundreds of reviews, essays, and articles. She is the editor of three acclaimed anthologies, the New York Times Bestseller What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (Algonquin 2013), Me, My Hair and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession (Algonquin 2015) and Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (Simon & Schuster; SUNY Press). She has taught writing at Princeton, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Swarthmore, and MIT, and is on the Fiction Faculty of the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College.