Sari Ellen

I earned an MFA in Fiction via a top fellowship from Columbia University, have won many awards and been nominated for Pushcarts. I'm published in the NYTimes, SFChronicle, Beloit Fiction Journal, Woven Tale Press, So It Goes, Satirist, Ilanot Review, Huffpo Canada, and elsewhere. Genetically, I’m a descendent of the Druze, a Middle Eastern tribe which split from Shi’a Islam centuries ago and whose canon includes a belief in reincarnation. I've just finished rewriting my first novel, which is about a New Yorker who starts remembering her past-life 4,000 years ago in the Land of Canaan. I became fascinated by the ancient Canaanite experience, concepts from this Bronze Age era have become  the shared foundation of our contemporary monotheistic faith traditions.