Ellen has been making a living as a writer since she got her creative writing degree from Carnegie Mellon University and went to work for Microsoft. She spent years writing technical manuals no one ever read until she finally took a shot at writing what she really loves - romance.

Ellen and her husband are both from Scranton, Pennsylvania. They met on a blind date on New Year's Eve in a mutual love-at-first-sight moment - which would make an awesome novel, if only her husband would agree to be "fictionalized". They live with their sons in a college town in New York State.