Amelia Estelle Dellos

Amelia Estelle Dellos is an award-winning writer and filmmaker based in Chicago, Illinois. Amelia holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago, is a CSPA (Columbia University, NY) 2025 Gold Circle winner, and studied with author Lucy Ives at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.

Her work has been published in Big Shoulders Press, Grand Dame Literary Journal, and Highly Sensitive Refuge. Her short story “Psychopomp” was published in Writing in Place: Stories from the Pandemic, which debuted on Amazon at #4 in Essays. As a screenwriter and director, Amelia’s films have appeared on PBS and Amazon Prime. She has earned accolades as a Sundance International Writers’ Lab finalist, Chicago International Film Festival Pitch Winner, and the Women’s International Film Festival finalist.