Elisabeth Nonas, the author of four published novels, has written several screenplays as well as short stories, magazine articles, and essays. She coauthored with Simon LeVay the nonfiction City of Friends: A Portrait of the Gay and Lesbian Community in America. She taught screenwriting and writing for emerging media at Ithaca College for 25 years. She shared her pedagogy in Story Workout: Exercises to Help You Connect with the Stories You Want to Tell. Her most recent novel, Grace Period, was published in 2024. She is currently working on a sequel.