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, and awards from The Society of Professional Journalists and others. 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 a Rubys Artist Grant. In 2018, she was a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow. In 2023, Elizabeth became the first literary artist to win the prestigious Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, which is the largest arts award in the region. 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 to places like the Vermont Studio Center, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Ragdale; and through generous grants from organizations such as the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, to name a few.

Literary Agent: Marya Spence at Janklow & Nesbit

Film/TV: Will Watkins at CAA

Author Photo: Stefani Foster LaBrecque

Contact:  eedickinson@gmail.com

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