Ellie Belew

Ellie Belew writes in a style she calls Northwest Noir, set in the brooding moodiness of the Pacific Northwest, with characters who share a hard-bitten edge. Born and raised in Minnesota, she has lived in a former mining town in Washington State for more that twenty years. Her writing portrays community-- human and more than human-- that which binds us together, despite ourselves.

She is the author of one novel, Run Plant Fly, three histories (Fully Involved, Bringing Power to the People, High Voltage Women) and the editor of a collaborative community portrait, About Wallowa County. Belew is currently marketing a novel based on the life of one women scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project, and the Wanapum People who are displaced by the Project.

Her shorter work has been published in literary and trade journals, an anthology, and online.