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Mother, Wife, Storyteller, Friend, Conjure Woman, Drinker of Coke Colas, and Lover of Good Food, Kelly Norman Ellis was raised in Jackson, Mississippi and Knoxville, Tennessee.
She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Chicago State University. She is also the associate director of the MFA in Creative Writing program as CSU, and a poet whose work has appeared in Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry, Spirit and Flame, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art, Boomer Girls, Essence Magazine, Obsidian, Calyx, Cornbread Nation, and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. She is a recipient of a Kentucky Foundation for Women writer’s grant. Ellis is also a Cave Canem fellow, founding member of the Affrilachian Poets and contributes regular poetry reviews for Black Issues Book Review. Her first collection of poetry Tougaloo Blues was published by Third World Press in 2003. Dr. Ellis is at work on a new collection entitled Solum. Currently she lives on Chicago’s south side with her partner Kevin and their daughter Naomi Zora.
