Lyndsey Renee Ellis

Lyndsey Ellis is a writer, editor and teaching artist who enjoys crafting speculative fiction and longform essays that explore regional history and intergenerational dynamics in the Midwest. Author of Bone Broth (Hidden Timber Books, 2021), her work appears in The New York Times, Kweli Journal, Shondaland, Narratively, Catapult, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, and several anthologies.

Lyndsey has been a recipient of the Friends of American Writers Literature Award, San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Washington University's Inaugural Heartland Journalism Fellowship and an artist support grant from the Regional Arts Commission St. Louis which helped her launch PlainTalk, a workshop series connecting different generations through storytelling.

Forever in love with the power of words, Lyndsey is the founder of Show-Me Stories, LLC. a literary consulting resource that helps new creative writers develop their ideas into full projects. She also teaches online classes at Gotham Writers Workshop and is a curatorial editor for Scarlet of Jaded Ibis Press. Lyndsey earned an MFA from California College of the Arts and BA in English from University of MO-Columbia (Mizzou).

For more info, connect with Lyndsey on IG at @lyelliswrites or see CV here.