Ellen Hinsey is the author of the volume of poetry Cities of Memory, which was nominated in 1996 for the Yale Series Award. In 1998 she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and in 1999 a nomination for the Pushcart Prize. Her second book, The White Fire of Time (2002), written after a family tragedy, is an exploration of poetry, ethics and spirituality. Her third book, Update on the Descent, addresses this experience and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her poems and essays have been appeared in a number of publications, including the New Yorker and the New York Times. She has been a guest author at the Sorbonne, the École Normale Supérieure, and the Prague International Writers Workshop.

Hinsey resides in Paris, where she teaches for Skidmore College’s Paris Program.