Ella Hormel

Ella Hormel is a queer writer whose fiction focuses on family life and the city of San Francisco, where she grew up. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and received the Harvey Swados Fiction Prize in 2023. Her flash fiction has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Passages North, and The New York Times' Tiny Love Stories. "Aftershock," a flash piece about a family woken by an earthquake, was published by Pithead Chapel in its Volume 14, Issue 4 issue. Her debut collection of flash fiction set in San Francisco, Earthquake Weather, is forthcoming from Indirect Books.