Elizabeth Nunez (18 February 1944 – 8 November 2024) was a Trinidadian-American novelist academic who was a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College, New York City.

[1] Having arrived in the United States aged 19, Nunez earned a BA in English from Marian College in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and an MA and PhD in Literature from New York University.

[8] She was a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, where she taught courses on Caribbean Women Writers and Creative Writing.

[1] Nunez was also the Executive Producer of the 2004 New York Emmy-nominated CUNY TV series Black Writers in America.

[12] Publishers Weekly praised it for "[the] expressive prose and convincing characters that immediately hook the reader" and for handling family conflicts and immigration identity vividly.