Ellen O’Connell Whittet is an essayist and lecturer who teaches at UC Santa Barbara. She is currently working on a memoir about ballet and the forces that control a woman’s body.
Ellen’s writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Allure, Teen Vogue, The Rumpus, Lenny Letter, Salon, Post Road, Prairie Schooner, where she won the Virginia Faulkner Award, Redivider, The Nashville Review, the Harper Perennial Anthology The Moment (2012), and is published monthly on the Ploughshares Blog. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.
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