Ellen Wiese

Ellen Wiese is a Chicago-based writer and theater artist. Her prose has been recognized by the Bristol Short Story Prize and Glimmer Train and her publications include AGNI, Wigleaf, Lost Balloon, and The Bookends Review. She graduated from the Prose Fiction MA at the University of East Anglia in 2022.

Ellen has developed short and full-length plays with Trap Door Theatre and Chimera Ensemble. She received the Margaret C. Annan Memorial Prize and SCBWI Student Writer Scholarship and holds a BA/MAPH degree in English Literature from the University of Chicago. In addition to her writing and theatrical work, Ellen's interests include Dungeons & Dragons, aerial silks, and taiko drumming.