Ellen Marie Francisco

Ellen Marie Francisco was born and raised in Toronto. An early career in film development led her to Hollywood where she spent decades on a NAFTA-induced Investor Visa running her catering company "Amazing Graze". She has worked behind the scenes as a photographer for Cirque du Soleil, as a fan mail response writer and proof-reader for Sidney Sheldon, and as a copywriter for a bi-coastal mass market publishing company. Her first short story Depart Baltimore won a Writer's Digest Honorable Mention in the Mainstream/Literary Short Story category. Her art has been published internationally, and shown in galleries in Los Angeles, Hawaii, and Ottawa. Good Girl's Guide to County Jail for the Bad Girl in Us All: Your Guide to the Incarcer Nation is her first published work. The art in the book is available for sale on the scribblesandinkpublishing.com website.
Her memoir I Stand Corrected, the narrative memoir about her time in a California jail is being prepared for publication.