About Elle

Elle Carling is a novelist and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. Raised in a Ukrainian household in Canada, she writes character-driven psychological thrillers and WWII historical drama: stories about deception, survival and the masks people wear.

Her novel CATFISH is available in paperback, hardcover, Kindle and audiobook. The limited series pilot she adapted from the book has won seven screenplay awards, including Best TV Series Script at the Script Awards Los Angeles and Best Television Script at the Los Angeles Film Awards. A vertical drama adaptation is now in development.

Her feature screenplay THE WEINFÜHRER tells the true story of Heinz Bömers, the German wine merchant who quietly conspired to protect the great cellars of Bordeaux during the Nazi occupation. It has won three screenplay awards.