Ellen Pober Rittberg is a writer of fiction poetry and plays. A former journalist, her essays have appeared in the New York Times and other large urban daily newspapers. Her fiction has appeared in slowtrains and Santa Fe Writer's Project. Her poetry has appeared in Brooklyn Quarterly, Raw Art Review, Poetrybay, wheelhouse, slowtrains and Long Island Quarterly and others and a number of anthologies. Her humorous how-to book, "35 Things Your Teens Won't Tell You, So I Will" was published by Turner Publishing in 2010. Her plays, "Sci Fi" and Sabbath Elevators have been performed in New York, Los Angeles and at festivals, and Sci Fi will be performed at NY Summerfest this summer.
