Ellen Sazzman has been published in Moment, Calyx, Bridges, Poetica, and Common Ground. She was shortlisted for the 2018 O’Donoghue Poetry Prize, and awarded the 2016 Anna Rosenberg Poetry Competition from Poetica, the 2016 Moving Words poetry contest, and Northern Virginia Review‘s 2012 Poetry Prize. She is a mother, grandmother, and retired lawyer living in Potomac, MD.