Lou-Ellen Barkan is a native New Yorker, living with her husband and Rosie, an eleven-year-old Golden Retriever. Her two children, six grandchildren and three careers, on Wall Street, in government and not-for-profit, have produced enough characters and material for a lifetime of writing. She has published short fiction and non-fiction in, among others, The Stockholm Review of Literature, Lowestoft Chronicle, Round Table Magazine and Clever Magazine.