Elizabeth Rosner is an American novelist, nonfiction author, essayist, and poet.
The Speed of Light was translated into nine languages and won several awards in the US and in Europe, including being shortlisted for the Prix Femina.
The daughter of Holocaust survivors, in 2017 Rosner published her first book of nonfiction: Survivor Cafe: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, an examination of inter-generational dynamics in the wake of surviving tragedy.
The San Francisco Chronicle notes that "“Survivor Café — which combines moving personal narrative with illuminating research into the impact of mass trauma on a personal and cultural scale — feels like the book Rosner was born to write.
Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Elle, the San Francisco Chronicle and others.