About

Elizabeth M. O’Hara writes fiction exploring complicated grief, deeply held secrets, midlife reinvention, and the possibility of second chances. Her stories follow characters navigating life’s profound and inevitable losses, finding unexpected grace in nature, friendship, and love. She draws inspiration from Elizabeth Gilbert’s courage and desire for transformation, Fredrik Backman’s observance of ordinary people and their emotional truths, Anne Rivers Siddons’s sense of home and belonging, Nora Ephron’s sharp wit and cultural literacy, and Rosamunde Pilcher’s lush descriptive prose.

Having grown up in and around Cape Cod, she is intimately acquainted with the coastal landscape, and its rhythms and qualities infuse her work. Her culinary training is central to her storytelling, weaving cooking throughout her narratives as a language of comfort, craft, and care.

Her debut novel, The Winds of Eastpointe, follows a chef as she retreats from the city to the beauty of Cape Cod seeking solace after her husband’s death and the devastating secret she discovers in its wake.