I’m a Pushcart nominated American writer living in Europe. My work has taken a wide variety of forms, such as an essay chapbook, a comic, flash fiction and more. I am also a specialist in material culture with an MSc from the University of Glasgow. I write a column, "The Book-Object" on the materiality of books for Zona Motel, as well as contribute historical gossip. I also write a cultural criticism newsletter called Sad & Famous.

• Zona Motel

"Elinor’s essays are not only entertaining and helpful for someone like me who struggles to keep up with pop culture, but they are also masterclasses in media studies, applying a sociological lens to art in all its forms, and humanity’s relationship with storytelling, creativity, politics, culture, and materiality" Alive and (un)Well review

• Sad & Famous

Select Publications

Riding on a Bike by the Sea in Denmark
Hurtling Through the Void
The Dream Journal of Elinor Abbott
All This Useless Beauty
Rooms I've Lived In
Dear Ethan Hawke & Snooze Button
Baby Boom
The Feeling at the Bottom of Everything
Sweethearts
How I Lost It

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abbottelinor13@gmail.com

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