Former literary agent, left her full-time job in 2014 to focus on her dream of becoming a screenplay writer.

In August 2018 her hard work paid off with the release of her first script to hit screens, Netflix series The Innocents, an eight part teen fantasy drama with a supernatural twist, starring Guy Pearce. Elkington, who won short fiction prizes in her teens, also came top of the inaugural TV Brit List (a platform for writers of the best unproduced UK scripts to have their work showcased) in early 2018 with her script Full Frontal, about a young woman who tries to piece together the past few months of her life after waking up from a coma, with the project now in the advanced stages of being developed for television.