Elizabeth Scott Tervo’s gripping memoir, The Sun Does Not Shine Without You: a Memoir of Soviet Georgia, about her time as a exchange student in the country of Georgia on the eve of its freedom from the USSR, was published in 2025 by Basilian Media.

Eve in the Time Machine, also from Basilian Media, is her first book of poetry.

Her poetry and stories have appeared in Ruminate, Eye to the Telescope, the Wheel, the Basilian, Agape Review, New Haven Review, and elsewhere, and won a prize at Inscape. She co-coordinates the Doxacon Seattle writers group for Speculative Literature & Christianity.

მზე არ მზეობს უშენოდ (The Sun Does Not Shine Without You), was published in 2021 by Azri books (Tbilisi, Georgia) and sold out its initial run.

A native of Boston, she now lives in the Pacific Northwest. She is married to Father Michael Tervo and she enjoys life as a Presbytera in the Greek Orthodox Church.