Ellis Avery

Ellis Avery

Welcome to the website of the Best Writer You've Never Heard Of But Should Go Read Right Now, according to the New York Press.

One year, three awards, and seven translations after coming out in hardcover, Ellis Avery's first novel, THE TEAHOUSE FIRE, is now available in paperback from Riverhead Books.

Avery is also the author of a nonfiction book, THE SMOKE WEEK (Gival Press, 2003), an award-winning personal account of life in Manhattan after 9/11.

Click here to read Avery's American Library Association 2008 Stonewall Fiction Award acceptance speech.

A FULL-PAGE REVIEW IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES!

When [Avery's narrator] remarks, How beautiful, to see something done simply and well, she could easily be speaking about THE TEAHOUSE FIRE, a novel that, like the tea ceremony itself, provides true pleasure to the intellect and all the senses.
-----Emily Barton, author of BROOKLAND.

UPCOMING CLASSES

late January 2010: COMMIT TO YOURSELF, a creative writing workshop.

coming in April: HUDSON STREET WRITER'S DOJO, a daily writing practice space.

Click here for more information!

photo by Matthew Powell

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