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Portia Elan
Photo Credit: Clayton J Mitchell Photography


Portia Elan studied history at Stanford University and earned an MFA from the University of Victoria before returning to California, where she has worked as a waitress, bookseller, teacher and public librarian. She was a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and an abundance of cats. Homebound is her first novel.

Books by Portia Elan

Homebound

Immersive, open-hearted speculative fiction debut that connects an irresistible cast of characters across six hundred years – for fans of Gabrielle Zevin, Kaliane Bradley, Emily St John Mandel, David Mitchell

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