Pushcart Prize Award-winning author Elizabeth Ellen’s American Thighs tells the darkly comedic story of a thirty-one-year-old former child star’s journey from Hollywood to Elkheart, Indiana, experiencing for the first time the off-screen life of a high school sophomore.| CLASH BOOKS
Brain Pain, the kind that keeps you up at night, the calibre of demon-at-bay which Canon is pocked with. The greats diagnosed its dailiness through metaphor, while today we greet it with palmfuls of swallowed pills, the ritual of therapy, and advocate’s backbone. Libre is a Southern literature and arts magazine bent on brain pain & reexamining…| LIBRE
Elizabeth Ellen’s prowess at character concoction is readily apparent from the first page. In lieu of standard dialogue, she does something marvelous: relays story through vignettes that are not only meticulous in craft and heft, but self-sufficient ecosystems of plot, characterization, and symbolism. These self-contained vignettes function as linked accounts of the unfolding narrative and are also blatant reminders of the cinematic quality of Ellen’s writing. Mary Buchanan Sellers review...| 3:AM Magazine
