Elle Nash

Elle Nash is a British-American editor and author based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her writing generally revolves around women, psychosexual transgressive themes, eating disorders, and other self-destructive behavior.

Life

Nash was born in England but moved to the United States at a young age. Nash lived in Denver, Colorado during the years 2015 and 2016. She formerly lived in northwest Arkansas until 2019 at the latest. This duration of time helped inspire her novel Deliver Me. Nash's debut novella Animals Eat Each Other was published in 2018 by Dzanc Books. In 2021 she released a short story collection, Nudes, through Hobart Pulp. A novella, Gag Reflex, told in the form of a LiveJournal was published by Clash Books in 2022.

Nash also works as an editor, and is co-founder of the literary magazine Witch Craft Magazine,

Writing style Nash has been asked on her novels or excerpts reading as confessional or autofictional. Nash states, that she indeed bases some work off her experiences, but feels as soon as she writes it down, it creates a separation between fiction and herself. Nash states her inspirations are Chuck Palahniuk, Francesca Lia Block, Tom Spanbauer, Marya Hornbacher, Dennis Cooper, and contemporary Charlene Elsby. When writing about sex, Nash stated in 2020 she focuses most on the emotional content while trying not to overuse anatomical terms: "The English language is so clumsy when it comes to talking about sex." Nash describes the transgressive fiction genre as exploring how the boundaries of social expectations and morals can be violated. Additionally, Nash calls the horror genre the most expressive and malleable in fiction.