about

Ellie Black is a poet, memoirist, editor, critic, screenwriter, performer, and educator originally from Arkansas. She received a PhD in English, Creative Writing Concentration (emphasis in nonfiction, memoir, and autotheory) and MFA in poetry from the University of Mississippi.

Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Common, Washington Square Review, Mississippi Review, Poetry Online, Black Warrior Review, Best New Poets, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. Her prose and criticism appear in Hayden's Ferry Review, Colorado Review, the Georgia Review, Fandom Spotlite, and the Adroit Journal. She has attended the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Bucknell Seminar, and NYU's Writers in New York program. Winner of the 2023 Pinch Literary Prize in Poetry and finalist for the 2025 DISQUIET Prize in Poetry, she has also received awards and recognition from the C.D. Wright Women Writer's Conference, the Poets' Roundtable of Arkansas, the University of Mississippi, Hendrix College, Split Lip Magazine, the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi, and the Austin Film Festival.​

(Photo by Lexi Adams Photography.)