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“Her, deconstructed” |
Personal Essay | Published in Relief Journal
“She lay against the sheet paper stretched over the reclining table, pointed one foot and the other. He stared; tendu, he remembered, that’s a tendu. They left the hospital room, and in the time it took to walk the hallway, the lobby, the parking lot, he heard the doctor’s voice again, repeating: replaced.”
“We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.”
About
John Edward Ellis’ work has been featured in Relief Journal, Able Muse Review, Embodied Effigies Magazine, Ginosko Literary Journal, Jonah Magazine, and elsewhere. His memoir, An Argonaut’s Anthology for a Once and Future Kingdom, about teaching underprivileged youth in San Francisco and traversing the Mojave Desert, is forthcoming.
Ellis is the recipient of a grant from the Fulbright Program and a fellowship from Saint Mary’s College of California, where he earned an M.F.A. A former U.S. Soldier and Paratrooper, he serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Veterans Studies, the only scholarly journal dedicated to the study of military veterans. Ellis’ other projects include podcasting on matters of culture, politics, and philosophy through the lens of the Christian faith.
Ellis grew up in West Africa, Europe, and the Northeastern United States; as an adult, he lived for eleven years in San Francisco. Currently, he lives in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area with his wife and daughter.
Selected Work
“Her, deconstructed”
Personal Essay | Republished in Ginosko Literary Journal | August, 2019
Book Review | Published in the Journal of Veterans Studies | May, 2019
Personal Essay | Published in Embodied Effigies Magazine | February, 2018
Personal Essay | Published in Jonah Magazine | February, 2018
Personal Essay | Published in Relief Journal | June, 2017
Book Review | Published in Able Muse Review | July, 2016
“Veterans Studies’ New Trailblazer”
Article | Written in association with the Journal of Veterans Studies on Medium.com | July, 2020
Article | Written in association with the Journal of Veterans Studies on Medium.com | December, 2019
Critical Essay | Written on Medium.com
Article | Written on Medium.com
Short Story | Written for The Saint Mary’s College Master of Fine Arts Graduate Student Anthology
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