Ellen Blum Barish's essays and features have appeared in Newsweek, Self, the Chicago Tribune. For more than a decade, she wrote an award-winning newspaper column on women and family life. Sixty of the pieces were edited and compiled for her book, "Views from the Home Office Window: On Motherhood, Family and Life," published in 2007. Many of her essays have been heard as radio commentaries on WBEZ-Chicago Public Radio.
She has taught writing at many Chicago-area universities including Northwestern University where she earned a graduate degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism. She is an adjunct writing instructor at Northwestern where she teaches engineering students at the Segal Design Institute.
Ellen facilitates workshops on personal essay writing at StoryStudio Chicago, StoryStudio North Shore, New Trier Extension, and has led essay workshops at Ragdale, Off Campus Writers Workshop, and Writers Workspace. Ellen provides writing consultation for academic assignments, business and career projects, and personal essays and memoirs and has edited fiction and non-fiction books-in-progress.
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