Writing

Historical fiction, family memoir, picture books for kids, and a truckload of humor essays: Ellen’s writing shape-shifts form as she explores human nature, animal nature, suburban Judaism, and the occasional silver mine.

Her books include Inside, The World Is Orange; Mother Blue and The Deep Down Under; and five books of social satire, including Lambda award winner, The Butches of Madison County.

Her stories have appeared on NPR’s Hanukkah Lights (thank you, Susan Stamberg!) and have been performed by Ithaca’s Hangar Theatre and Denver’s Buntport Theater. Her chapbook, Outreach, was a Gertrude Press competition winner.

She co-edited Boulder Voices, an anthology published in response to Colorado’s 1992 support of Amendment 2, an anti-gay referendum later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.  In 1997, Ellen’s unorthodox play, “God, Guilt, and Gefilte Fish,” was performed by Dylan Yates’ Goddess Theater, completing for weeks with Comet Hale–Bopp.

Ellen’s work has been published in Primal Picnics, Women’s Glib, A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park, The Washington Post, The Denver Quarterly, Pioneer, Palimpsest, Trickhouse, Wilma Loves Betty, Girl Jock, and many more.