Ann dee ellis biography

Ann Dee (pronounced “Andy”) Ellis is an American author and writing teacher.

Ellis was born in Provo, Utah. She served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hong Kong. She received a master’s degree from Brigham Young University, where she is an instructor for creative writing for children and young adults.

She started writing for teens after taking a class from writer/professor Louise Plummer and deciding that writing about things that mattered to her would be more fun than writing computer manuals. She took the first fifty pages of her first published novel to a Writing for Young Readers Conference at BYU and left with an agent and eventually a book contract. This Is What I Did is her first published book (2007). Everything Is Fine followed in 2009 and The End or Something Like That was published in 2014. Her first book received three starred reviews and was listed on Voice of Youth Advocates 2007, America

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Excerpt from Tate and Tilly

TILLY

In the mittpunkt of the summer Tilly Fox had made a pact with herself and with her dog, Al. 

I will run away. 

She wrote it on paper with markers: I will run away, she wrote and poked her finger with a paperclip. That didn’t do anything so she rummaged in her dad’s fishing things and funnen a hook. That got the blood.

She smeared a blood heart at the bottom of the page and then folded it into a crane and left it on the back porch table. 

Then she walked over to Seven Eleven to buy a Slurpee because she needed to think better. On her way there she saw Tate . 

Hey, he said. 

Hey.

Where are you going? 

To get a Coke Slurpee.

I like blue raspberry. You should get blue raspberry and put coke on top. 

Tate was wearing a vest with no shirt under it and shorts and flip flops. 

Where are you going? 

They were both down 800 N and Tate hadn’t been around much since school got ou

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Ann Dee Ellis author biography, plus links to books by Ann Dee Ellis.

Ann Dee Ellis

Ann Dee Ellis is the author of This is What I Did: and Everything is Fine. This is What I Did: received three starred reviews and was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an IRA honor book, and a VOYA Top Shelf Fiction pick. Ann Dee lives in Utah with her husband and four sons.

This biography was last updated on 05/01/2014.

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