About me
Bios
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E. L. Chen is the author of The Good Brother, Summerwood/Winterwood, and Sweetside Motel. She lives in Toronto, Canada with her son.
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E. L. Chen is the author of The Good Brother and Summerwood/Winterwood. Her short fiction has been published in Strange Horizons, On Spec, Lackington’s, and The Dark, and her adult gothic novella Sweetside Motel is forthcoming from Interstellar Flight Press. She lives in Toronto, Canada with her son.
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E. L. Chen is the author of The Good Brother and Summerwood/Winterwood, the latter of which was longlisted for the Sunburst and recommended as a Best Book for Kids and Teens by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Her short fiction has been published in venues such as Strange Horizons, On Spec, Lackington’s, and The Dark, and her adult gothic novella Sweetside Motel is forthcoming from Interstellar Flight Press. She lives in Toronto, Canada with her son.
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Other pertinent info
- I am represented by Dorian Maffei of Kimberly Cameron & Associates.
- I am not this Elaine Chen, the illustrator of My Day With Gong-Gong. She is a much better artist than me! I have an art background but I pursued web design as a career.
- I am mostly on Bluesky and Instagram. I have Twitter and TikTok accounts, but rarely use them. I do not respond to DMs.
- I also draw a little and have RedBubble and Spoonflower shops.
- I am a single parent with a day job on top of my writing deadlines. I am stupidly busy, so please don’t take it personally if I don’t respond to messages or follow you on social media.
LATEST BOOK
A gothic novella. Do you hear the screaming?