Elanor Dymott was born in Chingola, Zambia, in 1973. She was educated in America and England and spent parts of her childhood in South East Asia. She read English at Oxford before qualifying as a lawyer and practicing in the City of London and in South East Asia. She lives in London, where for ten years she was a reporter for the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales and wrote the Times Law Reports. Her short fiction has been published in Stand, The Warwick Review and Algebra and she also writes for newspapers and magazines. Her debut novel, EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE, was longlisted for the 2013 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Her second novel SILVER AND SALT was published in 2017, followed by SLACK-TIDE in 2019, both published by Jonathan Cape.
