Elisabeth Eaves (born 1971) is a Canadian author and journalist, born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has been the opinions page editor at the tablet newspaper The Daily since its launch in 2011. From 2006 to 2010 she worked as a writer and editor at Forbes magazine, where in 2008 and 2009 she also wrote a weekly column. She has freelanced widely, including for Slate, Foreign Policy, Harper's, the New York Times, and The Washington Post. In 2006 she was a Robert L. Bartley fellow at the Wall Street Journal. From 1999 to 2000, she worked as a journalist for Reuters in London.
Eaves received a B.A. (honors) from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and a masters degree in international affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Eaves is author of Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents (2011), and Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power (2002), a non-fiction book about striptease. She worked as an exotic dancer at the Lusty Lady peep show in Seattle in 1996 and 1997. The Washington Post called Bare a "first-rate, first-person work of social anthropology." Booklist called it "utterly engrossing, accessible, and informative."
Her travel writing has been commended and anthologized. In September 2005, her Slate series on flamenco in Seville won a silver award in the Society of American Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. Her Slate series "Eco-touring in Honduras" is included in The Best American Travel Writing 2009, edited by Simon Winchester. Her essay "Wanderlust", first published on World Hum, is included in The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010. Her original essay Seasoning Jerusalem is included in Lonely Planet's A Moveable Feast: Life-changing Food Adventures from Around the World, edited by Don George.