Elsa Court is a writer. translator, and academic based in London. Her short stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, The Brixton Review of Books, The London Magazine, The Tangerine, and Worms, and she is the recipient of a 2023 International Literary Seminars + Fence Reader’s Choice Award in the short fiction category. She is currently at work on a novel.
Court’s essays and reviews on contemporary literature have featured in Granta, The White Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement, among others.
She has translated essays and interviews from French for publications including The Financial Times and Another Gaze. She is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London and a Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford.
She is represented by Kat Aitken at United Agents.