Eleanor Thom (born 1979 in London)[1] is a British writer.
She won the 2006 New Writing Ventures competition with "Burns", a chapter from her first novel The Tin-Kin.
[citation needed] The book recalls experiences of her mother's family who were Scottish Travellers and settled in Elgin between 1920 and 1950.
In 2009, The Tin-Kin won the Scottish First Book of the Year,[citation needed] and was shortlisted for the Not the Booker Prize.
[2] In 2008, Thom was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship to begin work on a second novel.