Katy E EllisKaty E. Ellis grew up in Renton, Washington. Her chapbook Night Watch won the 2017 Floating Bridge Press chapbook contest. She is the author of two other chapbooks: Urban Animal Expeditions and Gravity, which was nominated or a Pushcart Prize. She studied writing at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada and at Western Washington University. Her poetry appears in a number of literary journals including Pithead Chapel, Literary Mama, MAYDAY Magazine, Calyx: A Journal of Art & Literature by Women, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and the Canadian journals PRISM International, Grain, and Fiddlehead. Her fiction has appeared in Burnside Review and won Third Place in the Glimmer Train supershort fiction contest. She has been awarded grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Seattle's Office of Arts & Culture and Artist Trust/Centrum. From 2014-2019, Katy cocurated WordsWest Literary series, a monthly literary event in West Seattle. She answers phones and processes electronic faxes of communicable diseases for Public Health Seattle & King County, and lives on Vashon Island. Read More Read Less