Eleanor Chapman grew up in various fields along the English-Welsh border (mostly reading, playing the flute and trying to convince a very reluctant schnauzer to do dog agility) and now lives in Glasgow with her girlfriend. She graduated from the University of Cambridge in Italian, French, Modern Greek and Old Norse, and is currently an interdisciplinary PhD candidate researching between human geography and critical sociolinguistics at the University of Glasgow, in particular looking at migrant activism, community memory and multilingualism in rural contexts.

She translates between French, Italian and English, and teaches languages and music.