Ellen Lindquist
Ellen Lindquist's flash fiction "In the Hawaiian Garden Where I Came to Escape Feeling Sad" was used to teach a course in flash fiction at the University of Glasgow. Her fiction has most recently appeared in the Staccato Literary Magazine, the Kennesaw Review and Genie. She was a winner in the following contests: E2K's Net Author Flash Fiction Contest (2003); Fiction Inferno's Very Short Fiction Contest (2002); Lotus Bloom Journal's Anniversary Contest (2004); the DeKalb Art Council's Fiction Contest (1998). She was a semifinalist in Mid-American Review's Fineline Competition (2001) and a finalist in the Shy Librarian Fiction Contest (2002). Her prose poem "The Erstwhile Wire-Woman" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Purdue Calumet's Skylark magazine. In 2004, she was invited to submit poetic texts to the London Art Biennial.
