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 two completed book-length projects. This All Belongs to Us is a novel set in a future-state America afflicted by society-collapsing infertility, and follows women attempting to make their lives in a country where they’re drafted to State-run birthing centers, while the rich retreat into bunkers, buy stolen children, and while away days watching movies on their ocular implants. My other book, Escape Velocity, is a collection 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 a novel about capitalism, climate change, clones, and the Jersey Shore.

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.