Elizabeth Wellington is an Emmy-winning lifestyle columnist, essayist, and reporter for  The Philadelphia Inquirer.

A graduate of New York University, she has degrees in journalism and English literature. She has been a journalist for 30 years, starting her career at The News & Observer, covering small towns and historically black colleges. She became a fashion columnist in 2000 and moved to Philadelphia in 2002 to become the Inquirer’s fashion columnist, covering runways and red carpets in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris as well as presidential inaugurations. Her role was expanded to lifestyle columnist in 2018.

Her collection of columns "Mirror, Mirror: Reflections on Philly Style, Race, and Voice." will be published by Temple University Press at the end of the year.