Young, E: John Emerson Roberts

Ellen Roberts Young is an independent scholar with a PhD in American religious history. She is also a poet whose chapbooks Accidents (2004) and The Map of Longing (2009) were published by Finishing Line Press. After growing up in California (apart from the two years described in this collection) and raising a family in Pennsylvania, Ellen Roberts Young is a member of the writing community in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She has published two chapbooks with Finishing Line Press, Accidents (2004) and The Map of Longing (2009) as well as individual poems in numerous print and online journals. Her first full-length book of poetry is Made and Remade, (WordTech Editions, 2014). She is a poetry editor for Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Borders Journal and blogs intermittently at www.freethoughtandmetaphor.com.