https://ninaellis.com/home daily 1.0 2024-08-01 https://ninaellis.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-03-27 https://ninaellis.com/fiction daily 0.75 2025-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1597646987135-QX1H4ZVQKC7E2W3OC0GJ/Monsters+Make+Monsters.png Fiction - Monsters Make Monsters The London Magazine, August 2020 “I was the pretty sister. I was the good one, too. Some people said Jackie was the good sister, but that was to compensate for her moving 7,450 miles away from home to save the world…” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/0bf571db-4999-4676-96fd-c8858bc9440f/Angel+of+Death.png Fiction - Georgia O’Keeffe and the Angel of Death The Idaho Review, April 2023 “Her favourite tarot spread was the Celtic Cross. She’d been doing her daily readings locked in the bathroom of their Airbnb, and that morning, she’d drawn Death first…” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/65c6d7c1-909b-4754-89f0-96f77c9582b1/CARVE.png Fiction - The Kingdom of the Shades Carve Magazine, October 2021 This story won an Editors’ Choice Award in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. “It’s eleven o’clock at night in Rome, which means it’s ten o’clock back home in London…” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1499026311826-FFYIIXJD3DCDW18FDASZ/Want+to+Escape+the+City%3F Fiction - Want to Escape the City? Litro, March 2017 “I slept with A. Then I slept with C. Then I slept with S. Then I slept with T. Then I slept with N. Then I slept with K. Then my mother died and I moved to Barcelona...” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1591257032250-9BPMK1BCV0GDI8WKXB5D/Strip+the+Willow Fiction - Strip the Willow The London Magazine, June 2020 “Leanne rinses her mouth out and spits. She feels a lot better, and she should. Her hair is right and her white dress is right and her mother’s old pearls make her skin look expensive…” Order a print copy here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1554445994633-IGFJ0DP94SZJL6BEFDFM/Our+Agent+at+Dawn Fiction - Our Agent at Dawn Granta, April 2019 “I run out of the hotel and down the Boulevard de la Reine. I breathe in for four steps and out for four steps. After I kill my husband I’ll go to Graceland and play guitar and be revered…” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1524044601013-F9BDCLE2R3QAPQGLCW16/Taking+Khayrah+to+Cambridge Fiction - Taking Khayrah to Cambridge Ambit, January 2018 “Khayrah taught me: that there is an app that tells you where Mecca is; that the Master's assistant's eyebrows are on fleek; that her nani is a witch, and not in the good way...” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1621917220431-BXBKCRUM7TRH8MA1EWNJ/Pros+and+Cons+of+Being+a+Trailing+Spouse.png Fiction - Pros and Cons of Being a Trailing Spouse The Mays Anthology, May 2021 “Con: You’re defined as a trailing spouse by the Company if you move abroad for your partner’s job, whether you’re married or not. Anne and I are not married…” Order a print copy here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/80a12c15-2e06-4a79-ac68-112ddb46844f/New+Territories.png Fiction - New Territories J Journal, June 2025 “He’s right, Callie thought, I am weird. That’s why she’d always been cast as magical creatures in the Academy’s end-of-semester shows—as Caliban, as Puck. She wasn’t believable when she played humans…” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1499025980606-AMITRNV6O2XII8GRTVGA/Texas+Is+Not+a+Desert Fiction - Texas Is Not a Desert American Chordata, Spring 2017 “Behind Father Paul, the altar drips gold. Hayden already did gold on her bridesmaids, but bless her heart, I’ll do it better. I want the oldest church and the biggest choir and the cutest veil...” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1499027443078-ZK8S648H58FR8N4DJ9KZ/Term.jpg Fiction - Term 3:AM Press, November 2013 Term was a chapbook of experimental short fiction illustrated by Christiana Spens. It was published by 3:AM Press in a limited print run, and was distributed by Galley Beggar Press. Find more of Christiana's work here. https://ninaellis.com/events daily 0.75 2021-02-07 https://ninaellis.com/nonfiction daily 0.75 2025-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/301e6ccc-00de-4597-b303-9353ffc3bfb3/Critique.jpg Non-Fiction - The Short Autofictions of Eve Babitz, Lucia Berlin and Bette Howland Critique, August 2022 This is an academic article but is not dry, promise. You can read it here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1539536150372-DIQVHGTRCKYH29CKERII/Lucia+Berlin+Writes+Home Non-Fiction - Lucia Berlin Writes Home Granta, October 2018 “If Lucia Berlin’s collections were houses, their hallways would change direction without warning, and their rooms would be bright and dark at the same time…” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1619507130951-M5P3ZSU5N1IY63LCGPWC/Watching+America+From+Islamabad.png Non-Fiction - Watching America from Islamabad The Oxford Review of Books, March 2021 “I’ll never fully understand how it felt to face Covid in Trump’s America, just as my parents and sister will never fully understand how it felt to move to Pakistan during a pandemic…” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/39fb8ab1-3ee9-4a0d-b2a3-031d4ad9e2fc/Rita+Moreno.jpg Non-Fiction - On Growing Up With ‘America’ Critical Quarterly, January 2025 “So what had I really learned from West Side Story during those formative years? In the end, I didn’t actually want to be in America. I wanted to be onstage, and I wanted to be the star.” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/3a4af853-bfd5-4000-89ac-f8a04cb894df/SFTP.jpg Non-Fiction - Lucia Berlin’s Roots in Spanish and Chilean Literatures Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, October 2023 Because Lucia Berlin wasn’t really an Anglophone writer after all — at least, not exclusively. You can read this academic article here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/d65d091d-aa62-4cf6-b454-122dd2e185d4/Stationery+in+Motion.png Non-Fiction - Stationery in Motion: Letters from Hotels The Paris Review, March 2023 “The Boulderado letter stood out to me because of the paper on which it was written. I got to Harvard in the third week of my research trip, and along the way I’d become obsessed with hotel stationery…” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/55eab1dd-4739-4123-9911-04ff3c34286f/Lucia+Berlin+and+Me.JPG Non-Fiction - The Borders of Biography: Lucia Berlin and Me The Cambridge Quarterly, March 2024 Dr Emily Hull and I co-edited this special issue on biography, which features an interview with Professor Dame Hermione Lee, plus several academic articles (including one by me). You can read all of this here. https://ninaellis.com/about daily 0.75 2025-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/740f7837-dedd-4ec3-b6ad-6b71e2250d31/Nina+Ellis+for+RBS.jpeg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://ninaellis.com/column daily 0.75 2021-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1630900940501-I3690M1QQWHC50VCNNGC/Detective+Biographer Column - The Biographer as Detective Review 31, September 2021 “I’m a biographer but I feel like a detective. I’ve spent the past four years researching the American short story writer Lucia Berlin and I’m now adapting my thesis into a biography…” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1621917473340-TYYV44CW8NO5SRO3EC0M/The+Art+of+Everyday+Life.png Column - The Art of Everyday Life Review 31, May 2021 “In the room on the first floor, a painting caught my attention: ‘The Swimmer’, by Swansea-based artist Carys Evans. It’s small and bright, and it exudes a sense of calm…” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1613280270100-SKYGCCPSMATQEI1FCLSC/City+Lights.jpg Column - Encountering Lucia Berlin Review 31, February 2021 “I first met the American short story writer Lucia Berlin 13 years after her death, in the summer of 2017. I walked into City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco and there she was…” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1612680123499-RCDWJTQYPEYJAM6QJT0J/Lockdown+on+the+Move.jpg Column - Lockdown on the Move Review 31, October 2020 “For me, the pandemic has been a period of movement instead of stasis, instability instead of confinement. Month by month, British tourist visas were extended, giving me a few more weeks…” Read on here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58b7b218f5e2315a5295aad0/1612680145497-R4JFN0G2XFK9UQV5ALO0/This+Column+Is+Live.jpg Column - This Column Is Live Review 31, December 2020 “It occurred to me that studying on camera must be very motivating — so I bought a webcam, created a YouTube channel, and decided to try live-streaming myself…” Read on here.