About Ellen

Ellen Baker was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and grew up in Wisconsin, Illinois, and South Dakota. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and a master’s degree in American Studies from the University of Minnesota.  She has worked as a costumed living history interpreter, a curator of a World War II museum, and as a bookseller and event coordinator at an independent bookstore.  She lives with her husband, Jay, and their cat, Patches, in northern Wisconsin, where she is working on her second novel.

Photo by: JoAnn Jardine