Elizabeth Atwood spent nearly thirty years as a newspaper reporter and editor, including twenty-two years at the Baltimore Sun. Her first book, Marguerite Harrison, America's First Female Foreign Intelligent Agent, was published by Naval Institute Press in 2020. Currently, Atwood is Associate Professor of journalism at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, where her research focuses on the relationship between the news media and political and social revolutions. Her research into fatal assaults on journalists in the United States was awarded first place prize for a faculty paper in the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in 2021. The paper was published in Journalism History in 2023. She also has written articles for the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, American Journalism, and Newspaper Research Journal. She holds a master's degree in history from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in public communication from the University of Maryland, where her doctoral dissertation examined the operations of four Moscow newspapers following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.