Born in Kenya in 1974, Elizabeth Atieno Nzimenya attended Mnarani Primary School in Kilifi at the Kenyan Indian Ocean coast and then Loreto High School Limuru in Kiambu near the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. She theafter worked as a field worker with KEMRI/Wellcome Trust in Materal Anaemia Research Project before relocating to Germany where she graduated from Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences with a double major degree in Social Work and Social Pedagogy.

A member of the Red Cross Society of Kenya. Elizabeth A Nzimenya is a full time social worker who enjoys writing, reading the Holy Bible and cooking in her free time.

Hard Times Aren't Forever is the first full length novel of this married mother of three young adults: Noella Mugisha, Chantal Ruth Mwizero and Lazare Thomas Ndizeyimana.