She is the author of ten novels, which have been translated into twelve languages including Greek, Swedish, French, Italian, and Japanese, and have been published in twenty countries.
[4] Heaven Falls was published by Telemachus Press in March 2010 and won 1st place in the 2011 Reader Views Award - Romance Category.
The Wine-Dark Sea, Painted Secrets, Red Sky At Night, A Distant Light, and Roman Candles were published under the pseudonym Ellie Winslow by Signet/NAL.
Eliot was a contributing author to Area, the Oriental Rug Magazine[6] for many years, and was a reader for the Independent Film Project[7] in New York City.
When she was two years old, her father, the art editor of Time magazine, received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the family moved to Spain.
Her great-great-grandfather, Charles W. Eliot, was president of Harvard University for fifty years and revamped the American college Liberal Arts curriculum.
Her great-great grandmother, Ada Davenport Kendall[17] was a leading journalist who spent several months in prison for protesting in support of women’s suffrage; she is a direct descendant of Edward Winslow, who came to America on the Mayflower.
Her grandmother, Ethel Cook Eliot, wrote children’s books (The House Above the Trees, The Wind Boy), teenage mysteries, and adult novels (Ariel Dances, Green Doors).
WriteSpa – An Oasis for Writers[28] is a newsletter that Eliot distributes to a subscriber mailing list as well as posting on her web site.