Elaine Burnes

Elaine Burnes is the award-winning author of the Captain Randall sapphic space adventure novels Endurance (#1), Tenacity (#2), and Resolution (#3). Also Wishbone and her short-story collection A Perfect Life and Other Stories. Tenacity won a 2025 Golden Crown Literary Society award for Science Fiction and Endurance won a 2023 Goldie for Science Fiction/Fantasy and was a finalist for the Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award. Her first novel, Wishbone, won a 2016 Goldie for Dramatic/General Fiction and was a Rainbow Award Honorable Mention. A Perfect Life and Other Stories (2016), was a Rainbow Award winner.

After years spent toiling in communications and editing for various publications, environmental nonprofits, and higher education, she now lives in and writes from bucolic western Massachusetts.