Ellen Lesser
Ellen Lesser is the author of two novels, The Other Woman and The Blue Streak, and the short story collection, The Shoplifter’s Apprentice, whose title piece has been performed on National Public Radio. Her fiction, criticism and literary interviews have appeared in numerous periodicals, including The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Epoch, The Village Voice and Mississippi Review. Her essays on fictional craft have been featured in The Writer’s Chronicle, and she is a frequent panelist at annual conferences of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. She has served since 1989 on the prose faculty of the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College, of which she is a graduate. She has taught at summer writers’ conferences at Indiana University, Mount Holyoke, and Stonecoast in Maine, as well as for twelve years running at Vermont College’s Postgraduate Writer’s Conference. In 2007, she served as a guest editor in prose for Hunger Mountain, the Vermont College Journal of Arts and Letters. Works in progress include a “long-awaited” third novel, Henna, set in Morocco in the mid-1970s, and Talk, a cycle of thematically linked stories about mothers and teenage daughters in crisis. The title story of Talk is forthcoming in North American Review, and a second story, called “Escort,” was recently named a finalist in the “Family Matters” competition from Glimmertrain. Ellen lives with her husband and seventeen-year-old daughter in East Montpelier, Vermont, from which she also runs a private practice mentoring and coaching developing writers
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