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Ellen T. McKnight

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Born

Cleveland, Ohio, The United States

Website

http://www.ellentmcknight.com/

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EllenTMcKnight

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Fiction, Poetry

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March 2015

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Ellen T. McKnight is a fiction writer and poet. She lives in the Chicago area, grew up in Ohio, and graduated from the College of Wooster and the University of Michigan Law School. Her publications appear in literary journals and anthologies, and she is currently at work on a novel, The Ex-Mom, which made the Finalist Short List in the Faulkner Writing Competition as a novel-in-progress. She belongs to The Writers, a juried critique group of published authors, and has helped to bring programs to hundreds of writers in the Chicago area as a Board member of Off Campus Writer’s Workshop. Visit her blog for writers and readers – Connecting through Story – at ellentmcknight.com. Follow her @EllenTMcKnight on Twitter. ...more

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Ellen T. McKnight's Blog

The Alchemy of Writing

We’ve all heard of great writers who suffered tough childhoods. Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Virginia Wolfe, James Baldwin, Jeannette Walls, just to name a few. The challenges may have equipped them with unusual insight, or pushed them deeper into their imaginations, or taught them outsized observational skills as part of the need to survive. I can intuitively understand why their difficult exper