Lyndsey Ellis is a writer, editor, and teaching artist who crafts speculative fiction and longform essays that explore regional history as well as intergenerational dynamics in the Midwest. She is author of Bone Broth, a story about Justine Holmes—widow, former activist, and funeral thief, who is mourning her husband’s death during the aftermath of the Ferguson unrest in St. Louis, Missouri.

Lyndsey’s essays appear in The New York Times, Kweli Journal, Shondaland, Narratively, Catapult, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, and other anthologies.