Ellen Pearce grew up in Tarrytown, New York, and was

educated (formally) in New York, Ohio, and Missouri. She

have lived and worked in Europe and diverse corners of

the U.S. at occupations as various as farming and spinning

the platters in a French discotheque.She now lives in rural

Missouri. Her first volume of poetry (Life in (very) Minor

Works) was published by October House (New York). Her

essays, poetry, and fiction have appeared in The Christian

Science Monitor, New Letters, the Rockford Review, Buffalo

Bones, the Flint Hills Review, and many other journals and

anthologies. The present collection includes works spanning

two decades.