Ellen Sollinger Walker, TWH 2025 Directors Assistant (Fiction)

Ellen Sollinger Walker, the daughter of world explorers, is a retired classical pianist, university music professor, and Clinical Psychologist. Her stories often explore the power, passion, and heartache of music and musicians. She holds an MFA from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MS from Eastern Michigan University.

Ellen’s published work may be found in The Dillydoun Review, Change Seven Literary Magazine, The Pigeon Review Literary and Art Magazine, Vine Leaves Press, Storytellers Refrain, and Tolsun Books. She won honorable mention in the 2021 Dillydoun International Fiction Prize. 

Ms. Walker authored Just Where They Wanted to Be: The Story of My Amazing Parents (2nd Edition), a memoir/travelogue chronicling her parents’ ten-year circumnavigation in their own 36-foot sailboat (available on Amazon.) She lives in Clearwater, Florida with her husband and a very spoiled poodle named Stella. 

More at ellenwrites.net