Elizabeth Christie is the youngest of twelve siblings. Her family was dubbed "Family of the Year" by the Knights of Columbus in Chula Vista, California. Elizabeth tries not to take it too personally that this award is from five years before she was born. Such a large family warrants the need to distinguish oneself from the crowd. By the time she was born, the rest of her family had scooped up the model, actress, fashion-maven, foodie, and guru identities, so she decided "writer" was her destiny. She wrote-- and forced all family members to perform in-- holiday plays, casting herself as the lead in all of them.
Elizabeth attended St Mary's College of California, where she majored in English and graduated with honors, something her husband, Greg, thinks she shouldn't mention despite graduating almost 20 years ago. Speaking of Greg, she met him after she hired him to move her out of her Brooklyn apartment in 2006, forced him to move to Los Angeles in 2009, and had her first, Darla, child with him in 2011--three months before they married. In 2013, they welcomed their son, Jude, into the world.
Elizabeth spent years writing narrative non-fiction about her family. These pieces were published in Chalkboard, Slice Magazine, and Sadie Magazine. Once she realized she was too worried about hurting people's feelings to continue releasing the stories into the world, she pivoted to fiction and never looked back. She has also published journalistic pieces in Refinery29, Bust Magazine, and Radar Online.