Ellen O’Connell Whittet

Ellen O’Connell Whittet has published essays in Prairie Schooner, Post Road, Salon, the anthology The Moment (Harper Perennial, 2012), and Ploughshares, where she is a regular blogger. She is working on a memoir about ballet and the forces that control the female body and teaches in the Writing Program at UC Santa Barbara. You can find her on Twitter @oconnellwhittet.