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.