Ellis Patterson is a Toronto writer who has spent time in Florida, North Carolina and California. Their work has appeared in publications such as YES Poetry, Minola Review, Plenitude Magazine, Sinking City Review, Humber Literary Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, and Coffin Bell Journal. Ellis was short-listed for the 2022 CRAFT short fiction prize for 'your lover smells of death'.
Ellis has an MA in early modern history from the University of Toronto.