About
Ellen Stone lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan where she raised three daughters with her husband, Roger Lauer. She taught special education in Ann Arbor Public Schools from kindergarten to high school for over 30 years. Ellen co-founded a poetry club at Community High School where she taught for the last 20+ years of her career. She continues to advise Community High's Poetry Club and bring in local and nationally known guest poets, host school readings, and create a weekly writing space for students. Ellen is also a co-host for the monthly online poetry series, Skazat! She is an editor for the new literary journal, Public School Poetry.
Ellen's poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review Mixtape, Midwest Review, Third Coast, Cold Mountain Review, and About Place. Ellen is the author of Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them (Mayapple Press, 2025), What Is in the Blood (Mayapple Press, 2020) and The Solid Living World (Michigan Writers’ Cooperative Press, 2013). Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart prize and Best of the Net. Ellen was a 2024 Good Hart Artist Residency Writer in Residence.
