Ellen Gray Massey

Ellen Gray Massey, born at Nevada, Missouri, has lived in Laclede County since 1946, and taught for forty-two years: at Conway Elementary, and Hartville and Lebanon High Schools, and on adjunct faculty for Drury University's Graduate Education program. She now teaches Elderhostel classes for the YMCA of the Ozarks at Potosi, and for Ozark Adventures, Inc. in Branson. A speaker and writer, she promotes the Ozarks. Since 1990 she has given over 360 talks about the Ozarks and about writing. She was teacher/advisor from 1973-1983 of Bittersweet, the Ozark Quarterly, published by her students at Lebanon High School and has done other editorial work professionally and for friends. She has published numerous articles, short stories, essays, a musical play, as well as 15 novels and 8 non-fiction books. In 1995 she was inducted into the first Writers Hall of Fame of America. She has won 24 awards from the Missouri Writers Guild and three times finalist in Western Writers of America's Golden Spur Awards.

Her recent non-fiction books are: Family Fun and Games, The Bittersweet Ozarks at a Glance, and editor of Mysteries of the Ozarks, Vol. I and Vol. II. Her recent novels, New Hope, and The Burnt District by Hard Shell Word Factory, an online and print publisher, and Brothers, Blue and Gray and Her Enemies, Blue and Gray and Morning in Nicodemus by Goldminds Publishing.

Her web site is at www.ellengraymassey.com.

Work published in Frontier Tales:
What Happened To Pa?
The Little Crooked Finger
Freedom Ford
The Hog Lot Shooting
We Won't Tell. Ever.