Ellen Prentiss Campbell

    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 , and Real, Regarding Arts and Letters Volume 32.1 Summer/Fall 2007.  A Story is forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review, Talking River, and The Broome Review. 

    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 Writers Center, Bethesda, Maryland,  The Space Inside Reading Series, Riverby Bookstore, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Glenview Mansion, Rockville, Maryland, and The Paper Street Reading Series, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

    An M.F.A. candidate in the Bennington Writing Seminars, she received her B.A. in English from Smith College .  Ellen is a clinical social worker and received her M.S.W. from Simmons College .  She lives with her husband and the youngest of her three children in Rockville , Maryland – walking distance from the Library and the swimming pool, two of her other favorite places.

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