Ellen Weeren's work has been published by the Saturday Evening Post, the Kenyon Review (KRonline), Hunger Mountain, Liars’ League NYC, the Hong Kong Review, Crack the Spine, Stonecoast Review, and others. She's the recipient of the George Mason 2019 Outstanding Graduate Student Award (MFA Fiction), the Porches Writing Fellowship, the Dan Rudy Fiction Award, the Marjorie Kinnear Sydor Award in Literary Citizenship, and the Kenyon Review’s Novel Writing Workshop Peter Taylor Fellowship. TripBase twice recognized her blog about living in India as one of the top 10 best travel blogs. She is working on a novel.