About Me
I write about ballet, literature, and feminism.
Ellen O’Connell Whittet is an essayist and continuing lecturer who teaches in the Writing Program at UC Santa Barbara. Her memoir, What You Become in Flight (Melville House, 2020) was named a most-anticipated book by Refinery 29 and Chicago Review. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She co-hosts the weekly podcast Good Moms on Paper with writers Annie Hartnett and Tessa Fontaine.
Ellen has written for Time, Paris Review, Buzzfeed, Vulture, The Atlantic, New York City Ballet, Allure, Teen Vogue, The Rumpus, Lenny Letter, Bustle, Catapult, Literary Hub, Salon, Post Road, Prairie Schooner, where she won the Virginia Faulkner Award, Redivider, The Nashville Review, the Harper Perennial Anthology The Moment (2012), and on the Ploughshares Blog.
She lives with her husband and daughter in Santa Barbara, CA. You can follow @oconnellwhittet on Twitter or Instagram.