Ellen Gunnarsdottir

Ellen Gunnarsdottir is a graduate of the Curtis Brown Creative six-month novel writing course, and holds a PhD in history from Cambridge University. She is the author of a biography of a seventeenth century Mexican holy woman, as well as several scholarly articles and a children’s book on sustainability published by Disney. She currently lives in Reykjavik and teaches at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.

The Flight

My father knew that March would be a long month this year so he died on the last day of February. Nobody expected it. My mother had said that he would outlive her and become a hundred. He was eighty, recently retired from his medical practice, and still indestructible, or so we thought.

Creative Nonfiction

Issue 16, August 2018

Ellen Gunnarsdottir

Ellen Gunnarsdottir is a graduate of the Curtis Brown Creative six-month novel writing course, and holds a PhD in history from Cambridge University. She is the author of a biography of a seventeenth century Mexican holy woman, as well as several scholarly articles and a children’s book on sustainability published by Disney. She currently lives in Reykjavik and teaches at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.

The Flight

My father knew that March would be a long month this year so he died on the last day of February. Nobody expected it. My mother had said that he would outlive her and become a hundred. He was eighty, recently retired from his medical practice, and still indestructible, or so we thought.

Creative Nonfiction

Issue 16, August 2018

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