About the Author

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Exploring faraway worlds,
seeking a deeper understanding
of our connections to others.

Elizabeth Birkelund is the author of The Runaway Wife and The Dressmaker. Her novel, A Northern Light in Provence, will be published in May 2024.

Prior to writing novels, Elizabeth was the personal finance columnist for Cosmopolitan magazine and a full-time freelance writer for national magazines including Glamour, Self, Victoria, Working Woman, and Institutional Investor. She has served on the boards of the National Humanities Center and the Center for Fiction. She received a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in New York City.

“Elizabeth Birkelund is a graceful, intelligent writer, full of energy and wit, and I love the way she blends American and European themes.”

Roxana Robinson, author of Sparta

Novels by Elizabeth Birkelund

A Northern Light in Provence

A woman leaves her coastal Greenland village to translate the works of an elderly Provençal poet and finds her life irrevocably changed in this tender, romantic, and evocative novel set in a French village

The Runaway Wife

Three concerned French sisters entrust an American hiker with the mission of rescuing their mother high in the Alps. But what if she doesn’t want to be found?

The Dressmaker

In this romantic novel, a provincial French dressmaker falls head over heels in love—with a woman who has hired him to create her wedding gown…

From where she lies, she can see gently twinkling stars out the open French doors. They seem distant, unlike the ones at home, where the swaths of firedust appear so close you feel you can touch them.

A Northern Light in Provence

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