Elsa Court is a writer and translator based in London. Her short stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, The London Magazine, The Tangerine, and Worms, and were most recently shortlisted in the Bridport Prize and the London Magazine Short Story Prize. She is the recipient of a Fence Reader’s Choice Award in the short fiction category.
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 language 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.