Bio:
In 2008, Ellen Lindquist was a winner in the
Caferati "Tall Story" Flash Fiction Contest in Mumbai, India for "Peggy Guggenheim's Nose." In 2007, she was a finalist in both
The Binnacle's Ultra-Short Competition for "
Daredevil" and
Escape Pod's Flash Fiction Contest for "
Alien Tot." Her short-short "In the Hawaiian Garden Where I Came to Escape Feeling Sad" was selected to teach a course in flash fiction at the
University of Glasgow in 2006. In 2004, she was invited to submit illustrated poetic texts to the
London Art Biennial.
Skylark Magazine nominated her prose poem/flash fiction "The Erstwhile Wire-Woman" for a Pushcart Prize. She was a winner in the following contests:
E2K’s Net Author Flash Fiction Contest (2003);
Fiction Inferno’s Very Short Fiction Contest (2002);
Lotus Bloom Journal’s Anniversary Contest (2004); and, the DeKalb Art Council’s Fiction Contest (1998). She was a semifinalist in
Mid-American Review’s Fineline Competition (2001) and a finalist in the
Shy Librarian Fiction Contest (2002). Her poetry has appeared in
5 AM, The Small Pond Magazine, U.S. 1 Worksheets, and others.
Originally from Michigan, she lives in Atlanta. Contact: ellen_lindquist [at] hotmail [dot] com
