Originally from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Mary Ellen holds a degree in English Composition from Beloit College. She spent twelve years in the mountains of Colorado where she managed a successful independent bookstore and delivered mail for the U.S. Post Office. She is now a self-unemployed writer in Waterloo, South Carolina. A member of the South Carolina Writers Workshop, Spartanburg chapter, she is currently seeking a publisher for her first novel, Under A Gibbous Moon.