Ellen Elder

Ellen Elder was born in New York City, raised in Cincinnati, and educated at The University of Chicago, Miami University of Ohio and The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She spent childhood summers in Ireland where her family ran an inn. Her poetry and book reviews have appeared in About Place Journal, Banshee Lit, Bird’s Thumb, DMQ Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Tampa Review, Tupelo Quarterly and elsewhere. She taught at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany where she lived for nine years before relocating to Charleston, South Carolina with her daughter.