Hinckley, Elizabeth (b. 1986) is an American fiction writer and essayist from Worcester, Massachusetts. A first-generation college graduate, she earned a BA from Smith College and an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she received a Hopwood Award. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House Online, and The Believer, and she has been supported by MacDowell and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. After several years teaching composition at a community college in Rhode Island, she settled in Portland, Maine, where she volunteers with immigrant literacy programs. Her fiction often explores New England mill towns, intergenerational memory, and the uneasy music of bilingual households.
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