“Writing is a way of saying you and the world have a chance.” - Richard Hugo
Elizabeth Ferris is a writer and writing teacher living in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia.
Her debut novel, Charlotte: A Novel of Jane Eyre, will be out with William Morrow in April 2027.
She is the co-editor of the anthology Unspoken: Writers on Infertility, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth and a former contributing writer for Richmond magazine. Elizabeth has been a hotel maid in northern Spain, a nanny in Australia, a garden worker on a commune in Sweden, and a holiday delivery person for UPS.
She has taught writers of fiction and nonfiction at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Studio School, James River Writers, and Richmond Young Writers. She is received her MFA from Queens College of Charlotte and her undergraduate in English Literature from the College of William & Mary.