Often quirky, always queer, Elna Holst is an unapologetic genre-bender who writes anything from stories of sapphic lust and love to the odd existentialist horror piece, reads Tolstoy, and plays contract bridge. Holst is the author of the stranded-on-a-desert-island novella In the Palm (2019), the full-length wlw Austen continuation Lucas (2020), and the new dark contemporary fantasy Pyotra and the Wolf (2021).