The question that drives me is: What if the world is a work of art, a sculpture we’re all constantly making and remaking? And what if pretending we’re consumers rather than artists of what we call reality is the whole problem? This idea sounds simple but gets more radical the more you investigate it.

I write a Substack about imagination and the role art will play in the age we’re living into, explored via the deep history of humanity and art-making. Sign up at the link below. This is the best way to get to know me.

I’ve written about literature for the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, LitHub, and elsewhere.

My advice column in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ask Ellie, drew on myth, folk tales, and classic literature for life guidance.

I have a master’s degree in imagination as well as a couple of degrees in literature. I’ve studied and worked with great poets, mythologists, storytellers, and novelists.

Now, after pursuing stories and imagination around the world for eleven years, I’m back home in England, where I live in a cottage on a moor.

You can contact me at eleanor [at] eleanorrobins.com.