• Broken Hallelujah: collected stories, Poets Wear Prada Press, coming 2026

• Escape Route, a novel. Running Wild Press, May 2022. Escape Route is set in the summer of '69, a year littered with hope and upheaval around the globe.

• Friends Anthology, “Showing Up,” Jack Walker Press, October 2020

• A Mile in Our Shoes: Personal stories of global journeys, Editor (one of three): Elan Barnehama, compiled by Nadia Ho de Guillén, Independent Pub, December 2019

• “Just Be,” Running Wild Anthology of Stories, Volume 2, Running Wild Press. March 2018.

• Finding Bluefield, a novel. September 2012. In process of being reissued.

When Barbara Phillips arrives in Bluefield, Virginia, to begin her medical residency, she thinks she is headed for an uneventful few years filled with work in an obscure little town where no one knows her, which is precisely what she wants. Everything changes when she enters Nicky’s diner and begins a journey that will last a lifetime as she falls in love against her better judgment and best-laid plans. The free-spirited Nicky later attends the 1963 March on Washington and impulsively and anonymously sleeps with a man in hopes of getting pregnant and starting a family with Barbara. When Nicky gives birth to Paul, her sister steps in to adopt Paul for his own protection.

Finding Bluefield honored as Finalist by the 2014 American Book Fest INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS; Fiction: Gay & Lesbian bit.ly/1vGBVhv

Reviews:

"Can a male author fully convey the female experience? Certainly the same was questioned of Wally Lamb when he penned the literary masterpiece She's Come Undone. Like Lamb, Barnehama takes many risks and - just by simply writing the novel - challenges the very audience he's writing for. By doing so, he is again reminding readers and critics alike that the sole purpose of a great writer is to tell the best story possible. In Finding Bluefield, Barnehama achieves this . ." David-Matthew Barnes, Lambda Literary Review

These pages seek to do the dual work of detailing the difficulty of life at the margins, while highlighting how normal those unfairly relegated actually are. . .Finding Bluefield nonetheless makes affecting arguments for work toward a more just world. An agreeable and earnest novel which highlights the innate humanity of the families which society sometimes forgets to honor. --ForeWord Reviews

As a 1st book it is not only really good but above all different. I have liked the particular style, so different from the usual. The fact that the chapters where so long and that any of them have the attention put in one clear direction is interesting. This book is different and bold in a unique way. Rainbow Book Awards

"Novelist Elan Barnehama's latest book Finding Bluefield tells the story of lesbian love set amidst the politics of the 1960s." -- SheWired.com

"Virginia is for lesbian lovers in this 1960's period romance. A doctor from New York and a roadside diner waitress fall in love-- and make one of the cutest couples I've met all year. Their courtship involves jumping into a convertible, making love, eating pies... can I join them, please? They decide to start a family and have a baby. That's when one of their righteous southern family members tries to take their baby away so it doesn't grow up in an 'unfit household.' . . ." Susie Bright, The Bright List

Reissue coming soon