Ellen Prentiss Campbell’s fiction has been published in The Potomac Review – Issue 40, The Fourth River – Issue 2 , Spindrift – 2006, Paper Street – Vol.III, No.2 , The Bryant Literary Review – Volume 8 , Blueline – Volume XXVIII , Real, Regarding Arts and Letters Volume 32.1 Summer/Fall 2007, The Broome Review - Issue 1, 2008, The Massachusetts Review Volume - 49 No. III, Kaleidoscope Number 58, Glossolalia, Iron Horse Literary Review and The Backbone Mountain Review. Stories are forthcoming in , Carve, The Midway Review, and Talking River.
Ellen was a finalist in the Hunger Mountain Short Fiction Contest (2009).
Ellen has been awarded fellowship by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), a working retreat for writers, visual artists, and composers.
She was a prize-winner in the 2005 Pikes Peak/Paul Gillette Memorial Writers Award Contest and a finalist in The Emerging Writers Network Fiction Competition (2006), The Ledge Fiction Competition (2007), The Elizabeth Simpson Smith Award (2005), and the Potomac Review Fiction Contest (2003).
She has written a collection of stories set in the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania near her paternal grandfather’s birthplace and her favorite writing retreat, her family’s old farm on Glade Pike in Bedford County. She is at work on a novel set in a resort hotel in the region.
Ellen has read from her fiction at the
She holds an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars, an MSW from Simmons College, and a BA from Smith College. Ellen lives with her husband in Rockville, Maryland in an old house with stories of its own - walking distance from the library and the swimming pool, two of her other favorite places. As a child, Ellen dictated stories before she could write, and remembers the disappointment of learning to read and still being unable to crack the cursive code of her grandmother's letters. Both as a writer and a social worker, she looks for the story between the lines.