“How are poets able to unzip what they see around them, calling forth a truer essence from behind a common fact? Why, reading a verse about a pear, do you see past the fruit in so transcendent a way?”

American novelist and former registered nurse

Elizabeth Berg is an American novelist and former registered nurse. Her fiction centers on character, family life, and personal change, and it has earned recognition from the American Library Association. Berg is known for novels that pay close attention to everyday relationships and the ways people move through change. Her writing tends to focus on interior life and domestic experience, with an emphasis on how personal and family ties shape a life.