Ellen Goldstein was born and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her work has appeared in "Poetry Southeast," "Measure," "Muddy River Review," "Mid-American Review," and in the anthologies "Rough Places Plain: Poetry of the Mountains" (Salt Marsh Pottery Press, 2005),  "Letters to the World" (Red Hen Press, 2008), and "New Promised Land: Contemporary American Jewish Poetry" (Continuum, forthcoming). She works as an editor in Eastern Massachusetts. This is her first prose publication.

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