Ellen Papazian

Ellen Papazian is a writer and editor. Her essay, “Concealer,”
appears in the anthology About Face: Women Write about
What They See When They Look in the Mirror, edited by
Anne Burt and Christina Baker Kline (Seal Press).
Her short fiction appears in The Long Meanwhile: Stories
of Arrival and Departure, edited by Molly McQuade
(Hourglass Books). Her writing has also been published
in Bitch, Ms., Hip Mama, and Feminist Review.

Formerly the associate managing editor of Ms. magazine,
she is now senior editor of the teen sex education website
Sex, Etc. The site is a 2008 Webby Awards Official Honoree.

Ellen received her BA in Creative Studies from New College
at Hofstra University and her MA in English from Rutgers
University. She is the recipient of the Highest Distinction
in Literary Studies Award from Rutgers University and the
Young Alumnus Award from Hofstra University.

She is currently seeking representation for Agnes Inside,
a young-adult novel about a preternatural 12-year-old girl
set in the summer of 1983 amid Truth or Dare, paper routes,
Madonna, family ruin, and basement reenactments of
The Beatles’ White Album.