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Ellis Avery (Elisabeth Atwood) was born on 25 October, 1972 in Columbus, Ohio, United States, is an American writer (1972–2019). Discover Ellis Avery's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 46 years old?

Popular As Elisabeth Atwood
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Age 46 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 25 October, 1972
Birthday 25 October
Birthplace Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date of death 15 February, 2019
Died Place N/A
Nationality United States

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1972

Ellis Avery (born Elisabeth Atwood; October 25, 1972 – February 15, 2019) was an American writer.

1989

As Elisabeth Atwood, Avery attended Columbus School for Girls in Columbus, Ohio, and Princeton Day School in Princeton, N.J., from which she graduated a year early, in 1989.

While at Princeton Day School, Avery edited and contributed to the literary magazine, Cymbals, sang a cappella in the school's competitive Madrigals group, participated in the drama club, and earned a Merit Scholarship.

1993

After Princeton Day School, Avery attended Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1993 with an independent major in Performance Studies.

While at Bryn Mawr, she was an editor of and frequent contributor to The College News.

She earned an MFA in Writing from Goddard College's low-residency program.

She taught creative writing at Columbia University, and previously at the University of California at Berkeley.

2000

Beginning in 2000, Avery wrote haiku daily.

2007

The Teahouse Fire also won a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction and an Ohioana Library Fiction Award in 2007.

2008

She won two Stonewall Book Awards (the only author to have done so), one in 2008 for her debut novel The Teahouse Fire and one in 2013 for her second novel The Last Nude.

2012

In 2012, Avery was diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma, a rare type of cancer that affects smooth muscle tissue.

2014

She published these online, in hard copy in Broken Rooms (2014), in a self-published collection called 365 one-line haiku in 2015, and in haiku-a-day datebooks for the years 2017, 2018, and 2019.

2015

She self-published her memoir, The Family Tooth, in 2015.

Her final book, Tree of Cats, was independently published posthumously.

An out lesbian, she is survived by her spouse, Sharon Marcus.

Avery was raised in Columbus, Ohio, and Princeton, New Jersey.

Born Elisabeth Atwood, she legally changed her name to Ellis Avery when she was 18.

2017

From September 2017 through December 2018, she pursued a nurse practitioner degree at the MGH Institute of Health Professions and was posthumously inducted into Sigma Theta Tau, the Honor Society of Nursing.

2018

In her later work, through her struggles with cancer and reactive arthritis, Avery became interested in medical narratives by both those afflicted with illness and medical professionals, and in 2018 led a narrative medicine storytelling and writing workshop at Harvard Medical School.

2019

She died on February 15, 2019.

Themes of Avery's work include "aesthetically disciplined bodies" and "the will to make beauty that exceeds [pain]" She was interested in the formation of queer identity before queerness was a "social category"; as such, she was at the forefront of a queer historical fiction movement in which the historical setting is, among other things, an allegory for the queer child awakening to her identity in a household that cannot recognize or name her existence.

Avery and her spouse, Sharon Marcus, a professor of English and French literature, influenced each other's work through a shared interest in interrogating received social constructs about women's relationships and lesbian identity in historical contexts.