Elle's writing and photography has appeared in Westjet's in-flight magazine Airlines for over six years - her articles range from travel and destination features to outdoor adventure, profiles, culture/ history and technology. She has travelled extensively throughout Canada, the United States and Europe.

As a corporate writer, her list of clients include municipalities, corporations, communications companies and arts organizations (like City of Thunder Bay, the Northwest Territories Tourism Association, Diavik Diamond Mines, The Gordon Writing Group, and Aurora Arts Society). She also is a seminar and conference speaker, most recently at a national conference in New Brunswick where she presented the seminar, ‘The Working Travel Journalist'.

Elle is the author of three books published by Altitude Publishing for their Amazing Stories series of books about Canadian history: The Mounties, Tales of Adventure and Danger From the Early Days (July 2004); Robert Service, A Great Canadian Poet's Romance With the North (January 2004); and Hudson's Bay Company Adventures, The Rollicking Saga of Canada's Fur Traders (October 2003). Her fourth book for the series is about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and will be published in spring 2005, and her sixth, Great Lakes Shipwrecks, in summer 2005.

Elle is pleased to author two books for the new series of books about Canadian prime ministers published by JackFruit Press. She will write the biography of Sir John Sparrow David Thompson and, later, a book on everything you wanted to know about Canadian government.

Of Estonian heritage, Elle was born in post-war Europe in an Estonian displaced persons camp. She came to Canada as a young child refugee with her parents, settling in Port Arthur, Ontario (now the City of Thunder Bay).