Ellen Lesser
ELLEN LESSER is the author of two novels, The Other Woman (Simon & Schuster) and The Blue Streak (Grove), and the short story collection, The Shoplifter's Apprentice (Simon & Schuster). Work from that volume has been performed in the “Selected Shorts” series on National Public Radio and anthologized in Houghton Mifflin's Images of Women in Literature. Ellen’s fiction, criticism and literary interviews have appeared in periodicals including The Antioch Review, North American Review, The Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Epoch, The Southern Review, New England Review and The Village Voice. Her essays on fictional craft have been featured in The Writer’s Chronicle and in craft anthologies including Words Overflown by Stars (edited by David Jauss). She is currently working on a linked story collection about mothers and teenage daughters in crisis. A long-time member of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program faculty, she has taught in the Postgraduate Writers’ Conference since its creation in 1996, and is serving in her second year as Conference Director.
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