Elizabeth Grace Hay (born October 22, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.

[2] She has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award twice, for her short-story collection Small Change in 1997 and her novel Garbo Laughs in 2003.

Hay's memoir about the last years of her parents' lives, All Things Consoled, won the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

Her most recent novel, Snow Road Station, was named one of the best books of 2023 by The New Yorker.

I felt kind of schizophrenic, like my radio work was one type of thing and my writing was another and there was a gap between.