Lovers

Elizabeth Benedict’s five novels include Slow Dancing, which was a finalist for the 1985 National Book Award for a first work of fiction. Her nonfiction includes The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers, and she contributes essays and articles to many national periodicals. She edited the anthology Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives and lives in New York and the Boston area.

Photograph by Emma Dodge Hanson.