Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson is the author of the critically-acclaimed book Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free, which came out in June of 2025 from Simon & Schuster. Named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, an Amazon Editor’s pick for Best History, and a must-read book featured in Oprah Daily, The Atlantic, Elle, Forbes, Harper's Bazaar, and on NPR's All Things Considered, among many others, Dickinson’s first book has been hailed as an exceptional biography and an essential read that “puts the American fashion icon Claire McCardell back in the pantheon,” according to Kate Bolick of The New York Times Book Review.

Elizabeth’s writing career encompasses cultural criticism, narrative nonfiction, investigative journalism, short fiction, and memoir and her work has been widely published in places like The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Washington Post Magazine, The Southern Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among many others.

Her nonfiction earned recognition in The Best American Essays anthology and she’s is a two-time recipient of the Independent Artist Award from The Maryland State Arts Council. In 2017, Elizabeth was awarded the Mary Sawyers Baker Prize in the Literary Arts, and in 2018 she was a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow. In 2023, Elizabeth became the first literary artist in Maryland to win the prestigious Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize from the Baker Artist Awards. It is given in recognition of artists who demonstrate excellence in mastery of craft, depth of artistic exploration, and unique vision.

Elizabeth’s writing has been supported with fellowships and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Ragdale; and through grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, to name a few. Elizabeth has taught graduate level writing at Johns Hopkins University, and she currently teaches in the Graphic Design MFA program at MICA. She lives in Baltimore city with her family and a very opinionated corgi named Buddy.