Elizabeth Benedict is an American author best known for her fiction, her personal essays, as the editor of three anthologies, and for The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers. Her novels are: Slow Dancing, The Beginner's Book of Dreams, Safe Conduct, Almost, and The Practice of Deceit. Her first memoir, Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own, was published in May 2023. She lives in New York City and works as a college admissions consultant.

Slow dancing
1985
ISBN 9781306625272
The joy of writing sex
1996
ISBN 9780285636422
Almost
2001
ISBN 9780618231614
The practice of deceit
2005
ISBN 9781299883970
Me, my hair, and I
2015
ISBN 9781616208141
Best Contemporary Women's Fiction
2018
ISBN 9780547661520