Ellen Wade Beals

Her poems “Between the sheets” appears in the textbook Everything’s a Text (Pearson) and “August 1999: Light is a measure of time” is in Kiss Me Goodnight (Syren). In 1999 she was cited by The Poetry Center as one of Chicago’s emerging poets. Also that year her first published short story “Picking” appeared as the 1999 Fiction Award winner in Willow Springs.

Her poetry and fiction have been published in journals from the U.S. (Willow Review, After Hours, Eclipse, Rambunctious Review, Falling Star), an

Her poems “Between the sheets” appears in the textbook Everything’s a Text (Pearson) and “August 1999: Light is a measure of time” is in Kiss Me Goodnight (Syren). In 1999 she was cited by The Poetry Center as one of Chicago’s emerging poets. Also that year her first published short story “Picking” appeared as the 1999 Fiction Award winner in Willow Springs.

Her poetry and fiction have been published in journals from the U.S. (Willow Review, After Hours, Eclipse, Rambunctious Review, Falling Star), and from Ireland (The Stony Thursday Book, Ropes) as well as in anthologies (Take Two—They’re Small, Family Gatherings), and on the web (http:///www.chicagopoetry.com, http:///www.inkandashes.com). In 2002 she was a resident at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan, Ireland, to work on a novel, which is still writing.