Ellen StoneEllen Stone was born in Syracuse, NY, and grew up on Spring Hill in Pennsylvania's Appalachian Mountains above the north branch of the Susquehanna River. She received a B.A. from Antioch College and an M.S. from Kansas State University.Ellen lives inAnn Arbor, Michigan, where she raised three daughters with her husband, Roger Lauer. She taught special education in Ann Arbor Public Schools from kindergarten to high school from 1986 until she retired in 2018. Ellen continues to advise a poetry club at Community High School where she taught for over 20 years. She is a co-host for a poetry monthly series, Skazat! and a co-editor for the literary journal, Public School Poetry.Ellen's collection, What Is in the Blood was published by Mayapple Press in 2020. Her chapbook, The Solid Living World won the 2013 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest. Ellen's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Third Coast, Passages North, Michigan Quarterly Review Mixtape, Sweet Lit, The Museum of Americana, Great Lakes Review, and Dunes Review, among other places. Her poetry has been nominated multiple times for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Ellen was a 2024 Good Hart Artist-in-Residence. Read More Read Less