Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson is an award-winning writer whose work encompasses cultural criticism, narrative nonfiction, investigative journalism, short fiction, and memoir. Known for astute research coupled with incisive, literary prose, Elizabeth’s work has been widely published in places like The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Washington Post Magazine, The Southern Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among many others. Her new book, Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free comes out on June 17, 2025 from Simon & Schuster.

Her nonfiction has been optioned for film and television, earned recognition in The Best American Essays anthology, as well as multiple awards from The Society of Professional Journalists. Her fiction earned the Independent Artist Award from The Maryland State Arts Council twice. In 2017, Elizabeth was awarded the Mary Sawyers Baker Prize in the Literary Arts, and in 2018 she was a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow. In 2023, Elizabeth became the first literary artist in Maryland to win the prestigious Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize from the Baker Artist Awards. It is given in recognition of artists who demonstrate excellence in mastery of craft, depth of artistic exploration, and unique vision.

Elizabeth’s writing has been supported with fellowships and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Ragdale; and through grants from organizations such as the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, to name a few. Elizabeth has taught graduate level writing at Johns Hopkins University, and she currently teaches in the Graphic Design MFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She lives in Baltimore city with her family and a very opinionated corgi named Buddy.