Hi there! My name is Ellen Rhudy. My short stories have appeared in many fantastic journals, which you can find linked on this site. My work has been anthologized in Best Small Fictions and honored as distinguished by Best American Mystery & Suspense. I have a completed story collection, Escape Velocity, which has been a runner-up for the BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize, the Dzanc Story Collection Prize, the Iron Horse Prize, and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize. That is a lot of prizes and I have lost them all!

I’m currently working on two projects: a novel-in-stories, This All Belongs to Us (set in a future-state America afflicted by society-collapsing infertility) and a middle grade detective novel (envisioned as the first in a series).

I have a Masters in Public Administration from the Fels Institute of Government, and an MFA in Fiction from The Ohio State University. While at OSU, I was Fiction Editor of The Journal for two years. I live in Philly.