Jan Ellison
Jan Ellison’s short stories have appeared in New England Review, The Hudson Review and Gulf Coast Magazine. Her first published story won a 2007 O. Henry Prize. Her second was cited as one of “100 other distinguished stories of the year” in Best American Short Stories 2007, edited by Stephen King, and received a Special Mention in the 2008 Pushcart Prize anthology. Jan grew up in Los Angeles and lives in Northern California with her husband and their four children. She holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford and an MFA from San Francisco State University, and is currently at work on a novel.

Published Stories
  • “The Company of Men,” originally published in New England Review, reprinted in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007
  • "The Color of Wheat in Winter," originally published in The Hudson Review, reprinted in Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review
  • “Girl in a Dirt Yard,” published in Gulf Coast, Winter/Spring 2009, Volume 21, Issue 1

    • Awards, Citations and Anthologies
  • 2007 O. Henry Prize
  • Citation in “100 Other Distinguished Stories,” an appendix to Best American Short Stories 2007, edited by Stephen King
  • Special Mention, 2008 Pushcart Prize anthology
  • Nominated for Best New American Voices anthology, 2009 and 2007
  • Inclusion in The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing, by Alice LaPlante
  • Wilner Award for Short Fiction, San Francisco State University
  • Clark-Gross Award in the Novel, San Francisco State University
  • Leo Litwak Award for Fiction, Transfer Magazine

    • Contact jan@janellison.com.