Elizabeth Flock

I am an Emmy Award–winning journalist and author focused on stories about women and the fight for justice. My work has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and The Atlantic, and on PBS NewsHour and Netflix, among other outlets. My book, THE FURIES: Women, Vengeance, and Justice, tells the stories of three women who used violence to protect themselves when institutions like government, police, and courts failed to do so.

Like most girls growing up, life happens, and I didn't question things until I got older, like why so many women experience some kind of sexual harassment, domestic abuse, or sexual assault. As a journalist, I learned best by interviewing other women. I didn't necessarily set out to find women who killed men or were super violent, but that’s just where my research led me. Like, the more I looked into this topic, the more I realized there's a lot more stories of women fighting back against gender based violence than we realize. We see those stories on television and film, like these female vigilante films, but we don't often hear about the real-life versions. So as a journalist, I just wanted to document and tell those real-life stories.

FYI: The Erinyes aka, The Furies, were three goddesses of vengeance and retribution who punished men for crimes against the natural order.