Portia Elan

Photograph © Clayton J. Mitchell

About The Author

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

Appearances

OCT 17
1:00PM
In Person
Portia Elan

FESTIVAL - Calgary Wordfest, In Conversation with Catherine Leroux

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Calgary Wordfest
12221 2 Street SW
Memorial Park Library
Calgary, AB T2R 0W5
OCT 17
7:30PM
In Person
Portia Elan

FESTIVAL - Calgary Wordfest, The Way We… with Tayari Jones, Canisia Lubrin, Harriet Alida Lye, Joss Richards, and Tanya Talaga

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Calgary Wordfest
111 12th Ave SE
DJD Dance Centre
Calgary, AB T2G 0Z9
OCT 23
10:00AM
In Person
Portia Elan

FESTIVAL - Vancouver Writers Festival, In Conversation with Angélique Lalonde. Hosted by Michelle Cyca

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Vancouver Writers Festival
1601 Johnston St
Revue Stage
Vancouver, BC V6H 3X4
OCT 23
8:00PM
In Person
Portia Elan

FESTIVAL - Vancouver Writers Festival, Lyrics Night with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Jordan Abel, Sharon Bala, et al.

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Vancouver Writers Festival
1218 Cartwright Street
Performance Works
Vancouver, BC V6H 3R8
OCT 28
7:00PM
In Person
Portia Elan

EVENT - Munros Books, In Conversation with David Leach

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Munros Books
1108 Government Street
Victoria, BC V8W 1Y2
OCT 31
12:30PM
In Person
Portia Elan

FESTIVAL - Toronto International Festival of Authors, In Conversation with Huang Chong-Kai, and Jeremy Tiang

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Toronto International Festival of Authors
91 Charles St. W
Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Toronto, ON M5S 2C7

Books by Portia Elan

Homebound
A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
By Portia Elan
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • In a dazzling ode to human inventiveness and the desire for meaning, four lives are entangled across time by one unfinished story, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s and destined...
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