Portia Elan is an American novelist and former public librarian whose debut novel, Homebound, was published in 2026 and selected as a Good Morning America Book Club pick. She studied history at Stanford University and earned an MFA from the University of Victoria, and her varied career has included work as a waitress, bookseller, teacher, and librarian. A 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow, Elan is known for speculative fiction exploring identity, isolation, memory, queer experience, and human connection across generations. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and their cats.