Jay Ellis

Jay Lee Ellis is a writer, jazz drummer, and the founding editor of Hindsight Creative Nonfiction and Changing Skies: Writing Through the Climate Crisis. An Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, he holds degrees from Berklee College of Music, UT Dallas, and NYU. Books include genre studies (Southern Gothic Literature, and American Creative Nonfiction) and No Place for Home: Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy. Scholarly work is available from Routledge, Salem Press, Grey House Press, EBSCO, and Academia.edu as well as professional journals. Now writing fiction and poetry almost exclusively, Jay's creative work has appeared in North American Review, NOON, J Journal: New Writing on Justice, Confrontation, El Portal, Flash Fiction Magazine, Every Day Fiction, Litro Online, West Texas Literary Review, Dime Show Review, Juked, and Hobart. For more see www.jayleeellis.com.