Elly McCausland is a British food writer based in Ghent, Belgium, where she also works as Associate Professor of English Literature at Ghent University. She has won and been nominated for multiple awards for her food writing, including being shortlisted for best Online Food Writer by the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards in 2015, and winning the Guild of Food Writers Food Blog of the Year Award in 2016 for work published on Nutmegs, seven. In 2017 and 2022 she was shortlisted for the same award. Her first cookbook, The Botanical Kitchen, was published in 2020 by Bloomsbury/Absolute Press, and won the Jane Grigson Trust Award. It was also Highly Commended in the First Book category at the Guild of Food Writers Awards 2021. Her second cookbook, Bake It Off: Tasty Taylor Swift-Inspired Bakes, was published in October 2025.
She has published food-related work in The Telegraph, Yorkshire Living, Olive magazine and The York Press and has been featured in Delicious and Waitrose Food.
She is also the author of Stars Around My Scars: The Annotated Poetry of Taylor Swift; Swifterature; Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature and Malory’s Magic Book: King Arthur and the Child, 1862-1980.
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