About Your Host

Ellen is a former adjunct writing and literature professor at George Mason University, a current creative writing adjunct at Frederick Community college, a conference planner, and a workshop attendee/coordinator – the perfect combination to understand just what you need to stretch your proverbial writer wings. A writer herself, Ellen’s work has been published by the Saturday Evening Post, the Kenyon Review (KRonline), Hunger Mountain, Liars’ League NYC, the Hong Kong Review, Crack the Spine, Stonecoast Review, and others. She’s the recipient of the George Mason 2019 Outstanding Graduate Student Award (MFA Fiction), the Porches Writing Fellowship, the Dan Rudy Fiction Award, the Marjorie Kinnear Sydor Award in Literary Citizenship, and the Kenyon Review’s Novel Writing Workshop Peter Taylor Fellowship. Trip Base twice recognized her blog about living in India as one of the top 10 best travel blogs.