Elizabeth Galoozis’s debut full-length collection, Law of the Letter (2025), won the Hillary Gravendyk Prize from the Inlandia Institute. Her work has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and for Best of the Net.

Elizabeth holds a BA in English with a concentration in contemporary poetry from Amherst College, and an MS in library science from Simmons University. She was chosen by Claire Wahmanholm for AWP’s Writer to Writer Program in 2022. Elizabeth is a poetry reader for The Maine Review. Her poems have appeared widely, including in Air/Light, Pidgeonholes, RHINO, Witness, and Sinister Wisdom (see Publications for a full list).

Elizabeth grew up in the Midwest and South, and now lives in Southern California with her wife Michelle and an abundance of fruit trees.