Elena Yates Eulo

Elena Yates Eulo’s internationally published novels include her critically acclaimed Civil War novel, A Southern Woman, published by St. Martin’s Press and by Presses de la Cite in France; Ice Orchids, published by Berkley Books and by Star Books in Britain; and young adult novels published by Holiday House. In addition to writing novels and short stories, she has been a journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and ghostwriter after a brief career as an actress and professional singer. It was her creative writing class with the esteemed professor and author Sidney Offit of New York University that changed the course of her life when Professor Offit advised her to turn her attention from stage to typewriter. During her time in New York she met the actress Samantha Harper who introduced her to metaphysics. Elena was raised in Sligo, Kentucky, where her grandmother, Topsy Morgan, owned a country landmark restaurant not unlike the one in The Two Sisters’ Café. In the back room of the White Cottage she listened to colorful and poignant stories confided to Topsy by friends and neighbors and acquired an ear for authentic small town characters. She is married to Vince Valva and has a son, Ken Eulo, Jr.