Lyndsey Ellis is a fiction writer, essayist, and teaching artist with work that has appeared in Kweli Journal, Catapult, Electric Literature, Joyland, midnight & indigo, Shondaland, and several anthologies. Ellis was a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for her fiction. She is a VONA/Voices Alumna and Kimbilio Fellow. Ellis is currently a prose editor for great weather for MEDIA and The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose & Thought. Her first novel, Bone Broth, was published by Hidden Timber Books in June 2021. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Visit her website: http://lyndseyellis.com/
“I remember waiting for an epiphany. Like a miracle, it would re-juice my imagination and add another layer to this project that now literally had my blood etched into its make-up.” Lyndsey Ellis on the physical toll of fiction-writing research.
