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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.
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    Back to the Places I’ve Left

    “No one knows how to handle it,” I tell her, but I can see she’s angry and I’m speaking into the wind.