Lyndsey Ellis is a writer, editor, teaching artist, and founder of Show-Me Stories, LLC. She's passionate about exploring intergenerational struggles and resiliency in the Midwest. Her debut novel, Bone Broth (Hidden Timber Books, 2021) was a 2022 Friends of American Writers Literature Award winner and selected as a first-year read at Maryville University for two consecutive school years. She's currently a Heartland Journalism Fellow for The Common Reader: A Journal of the Essay at Washington University in St. Louis and was awarded a 2023 artist support grant from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis to launch Plain Talk: Intergenerational Voices of St. Louis, a commmunity storytelling workshop series.
Ellis earned her BA in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia and MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She was a recipient of San Francisco Foundation's Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for her fiction.
A VONA and Squaw Valley Writers alumna, Ellis has had residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Paul Artspace and Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, and she was awarded a fiction fellowship from Kimbilio. Her writing appears in Kweli, Catapult, Joyland, Literary Hub, Shondaland, Narratively, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Smithsonian Magazine, and Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest, among others. Her short story, "American Haint", was a 2021 finalist for the Midwest Review's Great Midwest Writing Contest.
Ellis edits prose for Scarlet, great weather for MEDIA. and The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose & Thought. She enjoys scary movies and nature walks with her dog, Titus. See CV here for more details.
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