Photo by Mark Ficocelli

Elizabeth Ficocelli  was born in New York where she was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. By adolescence, she grew dissatisfied with the lack of answers to her questions about certain beliefs. When her future husband, Mark, invited her to Mass on their college campus, she experienced for the first time a spiritual connection with her fellow worshippers and a deepening love for God. Once Elizabeth entered the Catholic Church in 1983, she immersed herself in reading everything she could about her new faith. She began with supernatural phenomena such as Eucharistic Miracles, stigmata and apparitions, then progressed to Church history, the saints, and apologetics (the defense of the faith.) The more she read, the more reasons Elizabeth found to love the Catholic faith. She asked God how she could share her love of his Church with others, and he showed her the answer: through her writing. 

In the year 2000, after a 20-year career in advertising, Elizabeth launched a new ministry in spiritual writing. Since then, she has published a series of children’s sacramental books and a chapter book on how to follow Jesus with Paulist Press. For adults, she has written books on Lourdes, Medjugorje, and Saint Therese of Lisieux. Elizabeth has also published eleven articles in national Catholic magazines including St. Anthony Messenger, Liguorian, America, Columbia, Catholic Parent, Take Out (Our Sunday Visitor), and Lay Witness Online. 2007 saw the introduction of her first secular children’s book, Kid Tea.

Elizabeth resides with her husband and four boys in Ohio, where their Catholic faith remains the center of their family life.