Ellen Pauley Goff

Ellen Pauley Goff (she/her) was born and raised in the wilds of Kentucky. Her short fiction has appeared in the Indiana Review, Hunger Mountain, F(r)iction, and New Millennium Writings, among others. Her poetry can be found in the Atlanta Review, and her creative nonfiction can be found in The Inquisitive Eater and Karma Comes Before. Her short story “S.P.A.M.” was F(r)iction’s Grand Prize Winner of their Short Story Contest, selected by guest short fiction judge Madeline Miller (Circe). She is also the inaugural winner of SCBWI's A. Orr Fantasy Grant for children's/YA speculative fiction.Ellen received her BA from the University of Chicago, and her MFA dual degree in Fiction and Writing for Children & Young Adults from The New School. She has worked a lot of places to learn a lot of things: Kentucky Shakespeare, the oldest free Shakespeare festival in North America; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and The White House in the Office of Presidential Correspondence under the Obama Administration.

Ellen is the proud founder of a longstanding writing workshop and critique group in the heart of Manhattan, with the goal of providing publishing knowledge and resources to emerging writers, including un-agented, unpublished, and traditionally excluded writers. When she's not writing, Ellen works in publishing and international rights.