Elsa Court is a writer. translator, and academic based in London. Her short stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, 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.
Between 2018 and 2020, she wrote a monthly online column on migration and identity for The Financial Times, chronicling her acquisition of British citizenship post-referendum. She is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London and fiction editor for Review 31.
She is represented by Kat Aitken at Lexington Literary.