Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir (b.1958) has received several awards and recognition for her work. Her first poetry collection, Dans í lokuðu herbergi (Dance in a Closed Room) was published in 1989, and she has since released further poetry collections as well as novels for children and adults, short stories, and plays, and produced dance works and performances. 

Elísabet is a two-time recipient of the Women’s Literature Prize, for The Locksmith’s Good Advice and for Love, a nervous wreck. No dancing at Coalfishrock, which became a nominee for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2016 and was nominated for the DV Cultural Prize 2015. 

Elísabet Jökulsdóttir was also a candidate in the 2016 presidential election. 

She received The Icelandic Literary Prize 2020, in the category of fiction, for her autobiographical novel Aprílsólarkuldi (Sunny April Cold) and a nomination for the Women’s Literature Prize.

She lives in Hveragerði.