Ellen Behrens

The daughter of artists, Ellen Behrens was raised in Clyde, Ohio, the setting for Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio," which might explain why stories captured her at such a young age. After several years of doing other things -- from selling souvenirs to cleaning apartments -- and completing a bachelor's degree at Denison University in Ohio, she returned to campus at Bowling Green State University where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing.

She’s the author of four novels ("Superstition Victim," "Yuma Baby," "Pea Body" and "None But the Dead and Dying"), a short story collection ("Road Tales: Short Stories About Full-Time RVing"), and several nonfiction books. Her short works have appeared in numerous periodicals and a few anthologies, and her nonfiction articles have also been widely published.

A former fiction editor for Mid-American Review, an internationally-recognized literary magazine, she’s led numerous workshops, has presented at conferences and performed readings of her fiction across the country.

Ellen is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Women, and Who's Who in Education. In 1993 she was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant.