Elizabeth Bell has been writing stories since the second grade. At the age of fourteen, she chose a pen name and vowed to become a published author. That same year, she began the Lazare Family Saga. It took her a couple decades to get it right.

After earning her MFA in Creative Writing at George Mason University, Elizabeth realized she would have to return her two hundred library books. Instead, she cleverly found a job in the university library. She works there to this day.

Elizabeth was a Finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, a Finalist in the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Awards, and won Second Place in the Maggie Awards for Excellence. The opening pages of her debut novel, Necessary Sins, were published in the inaugural issue of the literary journal Embark. Her second novel, Lost Saints, was selected as an Editors’ Choice in the Historical Novels Review.