Elizabeth Austin’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Harper’s Bazaar, Electric Literature, Narratively, McSweeney’s, Ms. Magazine, and The Sun, among others. She has been a guest on podcasts, penned essays for newsletters, and contributed to anthologies. She is co-editor of a forthcoming anthology centered aorund healthcare in the U.S. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with her two children and their many pets.
Selected work
Grim
Soon
The Rumpus
Happiness Is a Big, Ugly Sofa
The New York Times, 2025
The Years My Son Refused to Go to School
Time, 2025
Girls Who Journal Have Always Been Radical
Electric Literature, 2025
Saving Her
HerStry, 2025
As a Mom of a Sick Child, I Couldn’t Bear to Lose My Child’s Stuffed Bunny
Open Secrets Magazine, 2025
Why Your “Failed” Essays Are Actually Working
Open Secrets Magazine, 2025
Making Friends With My Nemesis
Write or Die Magazine, 2024
The Gift of a Good Editor
Brevity Blog, 2024
Finding Comfort in the Horror of Stephen King's Maine
Reactor Mag, 2022
Timing
The Sun, 2024
While My Daughter Had Cancer. I Left Her Behind to Go to Ireland
Thrillist, 2024
My friends ghosted me during my daughter's cancer treatment, but it taught me something
Today.com, 2024
I Felt Like I Was Failing At 'The Talk' — And Then Chappell Roan Fixed Everything
HuffPost, 2024
My 8-Year-Old Was Suffering From Cancer. To Keep Her Alive, I Made An Unthinkable Choice.
HuffPost, 2024
The Cost of Distrust: How RFK Jr.’s Leadership Threatens Families Like Mine,The Cost of Distrust: How RFK Jr.’s Leadership Threatens Families Like Mine - Ms. Magazine
Ms. Magazine, 2025
An Open Letter to the Old Man Who Bartered with My Cancer-Patient Daughter at the Community Yard Sale Fundraiser
McSweeney's Internet Tendency, 2025
I Was the World’s Worst Cancer Mom
Narratively, 2025
What Gisèle Pelicot Means to Us
Harper's Bazaar, 2024