Spotlight On…

Today, Elizabeth Ellen is on Dark Sky’s stage, afire. She’s bad. Kickass. Warrior.

I want to be just like her when I grow up [oops, too late]. When I’m reincarnated, then.

– Ethel Rohan

Writing wise, where are you now? Where are you going?

Oh my god, good question. Where am I? Fuck, I don’t know. I think I got lost, actually. I’m working on a story collection. I’m working on a new novel. I’m always working on flashes, and telling myself they’re not a waste of time.

What informs your creative process? How do you keep inspired?

I would say movies inspire me as much as anything. And then a small handful of stories and books. I was recently blown away by a Jonathan Safran Foer story in The New Yorker. Every line of it had me saying, “fuck yes!” Pretty much anything that doesn’t bore the shit out of me, inspires me. My biggest personal fear is boring other people (with my writing, I mean, though also in general).

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