Elizabeth Birkelund

Elizabeth Birkelund is the author of A Northern Light in Provence, published last year by Random House, The Runaway Wife, and The Dressmaker, with editions in the UK, Germany, and Russia and several film options. Prior to writing novels, Elizabeth was the personal finance columnist for Cosmopolitan magazine and a full-time freelance writer for national magazines including Glamour, Self, Victoria, Working Woman, and Institutional Investor. A graduate of Brown University, she studied comparative literature which included a semester at the Sorbonne. Elizabeth has served on the boards of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle, NC, and the Center for Fiction, NYC. She has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Chateau Orquevaux Artists and Writers Residency. She lives in New York City.