Ellen Orleans

Ellen Orleans is the author of a memoir, Inside, The World Is Orange; a book of short stories, 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.

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, Girl Jock, and many more.

Ellen has taught writing in schools, libraries, and along hiking trails. A resident of Wild Sage cohousing, she leads story hikes for toddlers and manages sustainability programs for the City of Boulder. Write to her at orleanswriting@gmail.com.