Eleanor Brightwood is a British fantasy writer and folklorist from Cornwall, known for lyrical, place-rooted tales of inheritance, enchantment, and the quiet rebellions of caretakers, bell-tenders, archivists, and other keepers of the everyday. She studied English literature and folklore at the University of Exeter and worked as a librarian in Bath before writing full time. Her work has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award and the Kitschies, and she has contributed essays on regional myth, memory magic, shoreline traditions, and the politics of community archives to several folklore journals.
Eleanor Brightwood's stories braid coastal superstition with moorland myth, attentive to found objects, weathered places, and the ways communities keep or mislay their histories. She is the author of Ancestor's Enchanted Locket and the forthcoming Undertow, and her shorter fiction explores quiet, mythic fantasy through domestic spaces, tidal margins, and informal archives. She lives in Bristol with her partner and a perpetually muddy terrier, and spends weekends collecting sea-glass, seed packets, and stories from the harbors and high paths of the West Country.
