Angele Ellis
Angele Ellis is author of Arab on Radar (Six Gallery), Spared (A Main Street Rag Editor's Choice Chapbook), Under the Kaufmann's Clock (Six Gallery), and co-author of the diversity workbook Dealing With Differences (Corwin).
A 2008 recipient of an Individual Creative Artist fellowship in poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Angele's haiku appeared on the marquee of the Harris Theatre, after winning Pittsburgh Filmmakers' 2009 G-20 contest.
Angele's awards also include finalist in the 2021 Jack Grapes Poetry Contest and third prize in both the 2020 and 2018 Poetry Super Highway Contest. Both of these large, international contests are judged anonymously.
Her poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in over ninety publications and eighteen anthologies. She is a staff reviewer for Cultural Daily and Vox Populi, and a contributing editor for Al Jadid Magazine.
“...It is only now that memory works both ways. Which of us dreamed it - those from the country of nights five times as warm and as cold, or those who turned away and woke?”