Ellen Pearce grew up in Tarrytown, New York, and was educated (formally) in New York, Ohio, and Missouri. She have lived and worked in Europe and diverse corners of the U.S. at occupations as various as farming and spinning the platters in a French discotheque.She now lives in rural Missouri. Her first volume of poetry (Life in (very) Minor Works) was published by October House (New York). Her essays, poetry, and fiction have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, New Letters, the Rockford Review, Buffalo Bones, the Flint Hills Review, and many other journals and anthologies. The present collection includes works spanning two decades.