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Ellen Akins
Cornucopia, WI
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Biography:
Ellen Akins is the author of the novels Home Movie (Simon & Schuster), Little Woman and Public Life (HarperCollins) and Hometown Brew (Alfred A. Knopf) and the short story collection World Like a Knife (Johns Hopkins University Press). She has published short stories in the Georgia, Southern, Missouri, and Southwest Reviews, which (the last two) awarded her their biennial short fiction awards. Her work has also appeared in the online publications Perigee, Serving House Journal, and The Millions, and she has written reviews for numerous publications, including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, and is a regular contributor to the Star Tribune.

Ellen is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Whiting Foundation, the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Wisconsin Arts Board. She has taught at Johns Hopkins, Western Michigan University, Northland College, and, for ten years, in the low-residency MFA program at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She lives in Cornucopia, Wisconsin.
(from https://loft.org/artists/ellen-akins)

Selected Works by Ellen Akins:
Books
  • Home Movie. Simon & Schuster. 1988. ISBN 978-0-67166-135-9.
  • Little Woman. HarperCollins. 1990. ISBN 978-0-06016-362-4.
  • World Like a Knife. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-80184-288-7.
  • Public Life. HarperCollins. 1993. ISBN 978-0-06016-753-0.
  • Hometown Brew. Knopf. 1998. ISBN 978-0-67944-795-5.
Stories
  • "Something You Won't Understand". The Southern Review. Winter. LSU Press. 1985. 
  • "Nobody's Baby." The Southern Review. Autumn. LSU Press. 1991. 
  • "A Modest Appetite." Perigree: Publication for the Arts. 2009. Archived from the original on 28 October 2012.
  • "Her Delivery." Serving House Journal (2). Fall 2010
(from wikipedia)
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