LYNDSEY ELLIS is a fiction writer and essayist with work that has appeared in Kweli Journal, Catapult, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Joyland, Shondaland, and several anthologies. She has led several creative writing workshops with a focus on craft, publication, networking opportunities for writers, and cross-arts collaboration. Ellis was a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for her fiction. Her first novel, Bone Broth (Hidden Timber Books 2021), is a 2022 Friends of American Writers Literature Award winner and a first-year read at Maryville University in St. Louis.