Elizabeth Stuckey-French is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor.

[citation needed] She graduated from Purdue University and was founding editor of the Sycamore Review.

[1] She was a James A. Michener Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop; she graduated with an MFA in 1992.

[3] Richard Russo, in his commentary about the selections in the 2005 O. Henry anthology, called Stuckey-French's "Mudlavia", "the one that burrowed deepest under my skin".

He praised the "simplicity of its storytelling; the way its private and public stories play off each other; its fond, gentle humor; the heartbreaking, hard-won wisdom of its narrator.