Elizabeth Thuy Gordon is a biracial Asian-American playwright, fiction writer, and poet who was born in Saigon, Vietnam; raised in East Tennessee; and now lives in coastal North Carolina where she runs the nonprofit organization Port City Playwrights. A Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of an Individual Fellowship in Literary Arts from the Tennessee Arts Commission, her other honors include the CutThroat New Discovery Award, a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Writers Grant, and most recently a finalist for the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize.

Her plays have been staged in Boston; New York City; Silver Spring, Maryland; and many cities in North Carolina, including most recently Winston-Salem. When she is not writing, she can often be found doing vegan/animal advocacy, native plant gardening, bird watching/photography, or singing Hank Williams, Sr. tunes while strumming her guitar. She holds a Creative Writing MFA from Brown University.