Ellen Pauley Goff (she/her) is a graduate from The University of Chicago with a B.A. in English, Film, and Creative Writing. Her short fiction has been published with the Indiana Review, Hunger Mountain, Tulip Tree Review, New Millennium Writings, as has been named a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open contest. Her work has won Vermont College of Fine Arts’ Katherine Paterson Grand Prize for Young Adult & Children’s Writing; New Millennium Writings’ Award for Fiction Grand Prize; and she is also the inaugural recipient of SCBWI’s A. Orr Fantasy Grant for children’s speculative fiction.
Ellen was born and raised in Kentucky, and now lives in New York City, where she founded and leads Underground YA, a YA-focused writing workshop and critique group whose mission includes providing publishing knowledge and resources to un-agented, unpublished, and traditionally excluded writers. As a writer from the South, her work navigates and interrogates the “southern gothic” style, and attempts to modernize it by championing female characters that leave traditional victim and cautionary tale archetypes behind.
Open to work for hire and IP work in picture books and young adult. Special interests in young adult, young adult/adult crossover, and southern gothic.
