A native of Milwaukee, Elizabeth Ridley has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and a master's degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, where she studied under former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion. In 1994 she received a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship in Lasswade, Scotland, and in 2011 she received a Literary Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Arts Board for the first three chapters of her novel-in-progress, Cecelia Frost. She is represented by Laurie Abkemeier of DeFiore and Company in New York.
