Prissy Elrod is a published author and award-winning columnist for Flamingo Magazine, where her humorous “Panhandling” column has delighted readers for almost a decade. Her signature blend of wit, candor, and messy Southern charm earned her the 2025 Charlie Award for Best Column.
She is the author of two acclaimed memoirs—Far Outside the Ordinary and Chasing Ordinary—true stories written with the pace and heart of a novel and embraced by more than a hundred book clubs across the country.
Often called “The Butterfly Girl,” Prissy is a proud Florida native whose work centers on resilience, reinvention, and personal transformation. Through her writing and speaking, she inspires audiences to embrace their own second chapters and rediscover the joy of new beginnings.
Prissy Elrod is joining Word of South as the facilitator of the Florida Book Award nonfiction panel.