About Elizabeth Gauffreau

At various times in my life, I have been a preacher’s kid, a Navy wife, a Woolworth’s counter girl, and a Latin teacher at a dying private academy next to a cornfield in Virginia.

All of these stories have inspired the fiction I write.

I am drawn to the inner lives of other people–what they care about, what they most desire, what causes them pain, what brings them joy.

These inner lives become my characters. I am here to share their stories.

Author’s Biography

Elizabeth Gauffreau writes fiction and poetry with a strong connection to family and place. She holds a BA in English/Writing from Old Dominion University and an MA in English/Fiction Writing from the University of New Hampshire. Her fiction publications include short stories in Woven Tale Press, The Long Story, Soundings East, Ad Hoc Monadnock, Rio Grande Review, Blueline, Slow Trains, Hospital Drive, and Serving House Journal, among others. Her poetry has appeared in North of Oxford, The Writing On The Wall, The Larcom Review, and Natural Bridge. Her short story “Henrietta’s Saving Grace” was awarded the 2022 Ben Nyberg  prize for fiction by Choeofpleirn Press.

She has published a novel, Telling Sonny: The Story of a Girl Who Loved the Vaudeville Show and two collections of photopoetry, Grief Songs: Poems of Love & Remembrance and Simple Pleasures: Haiku from the Place Just Right.  Her second novel, The Weight of Snow and Regret, is based on the closing of the last poor farm in Vermont in 1968. The Weight of Snow and Regret was released on October 1, 2025.

Liz’s professional background is in nontraditional higher education, including academic advising, classroom and online teaching, curriculum development, and program administration. She received the Granite State College Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2018. Liz lives in Nottingham, New Hampshire with her husband. Find her online at https://linktr.ee/egauff.