Eley Williams

Williams' given name is Eleanor; the unusual spelling of Eley came from school. She grew up with two sisters. Williams graduated from Selwyn College, Cambridge. She lives in West Oxfordshire with her wife Nell Stevens. == Awards and honours ==

In 2017, Williams received the Society of Authors's Writing Grant, and in 2018, she received a MacDowell Fellowship and Fellowship of Royal Society of Literature. == Selected bibliography ==

Novel • ''The Liar's Dictionary'' (2020) Collections • Attrib. and Other Stories (2017) • Frit, poetry pamphlet (2017) • Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good (2024) Short stories and essays • "In pursuit of the swan at Brentford Ait", essay in An Unreliable Guide to London, edited by Kit Caless and Gary Budden (2016) • "Of Père Lachaise, On Business", in ''We'll Never Have Paris'', edited by Andrew Gallix (2019) • "To Plot, Plan, Redress", on the Rebecca Riots 1839, in Resist: Stories of Uprising (2019) • "Scrimshaw", story anthologised in Still Worlds Turning (2019) == References ==

• Eley Williams on Goodreads • • Eley Williams The Books of My Life at The Guardian • Profile at C&W • Profile at Profession Writing Academy • Profile at Penguin Random House • Profile at Granta