Jan Ellison Biography

Jan Ellison lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband of twenty years and their four children. Jan’s first published short story won a 2007 O. Henry Prize. Her work has also been short-listed for the Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize. After her children were born she spent seven years taking classes at San Francisco State and finally earned her MFA. Before writing and parenting Jan had a brief and befuddled career marketing derivatives trading software to big banks which followed a two-year stint backpacking and working in Hawaii Australia and Southeast Asia. Her undergraduate years were spent at Stanford where she earned a degree in History but which she wishes was in English. She left Stanford for a year at nineteen to live on a shoe-string in Paris and work in an office in London. She scribbled notes on yellow legal pads and years later those notes provided the inspiration for her debut novel A Small Indiscretion published this January by Random House. Jan grew up in Tujunga California in a house made of river rock and timber. Contact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Jan Ellison and other top speakers and celebrities.

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