Elizabeth Humphreys Penrose (born December 30, 1960) is an American writer of poetry in the science fiction genre.
She is a long-standing member of one of Pittsburgh's oldest Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Workshops, Carnegie-Mellon University-based Pittsburgh Worldwrights, which was founded by Mary Soon Lee and includes Pittsburgh science fiction writers Barton Paul Levenson and Kenneth Chiacchia among its members, see Pittsburgh#Writing.
Penrose was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor's in English and Master's in English Literature.