Forty Bouts in the Wilderness
(forthcoming February 2025)
Ellis weaves shimmering lines of verse and narrative into an exquisite prosimetrum (reminiscent of travelogue haibun) to examine her own journeys: the pilgrim’s search, the outcast’s blind wanderings … the complicated, shadow-streaked joy of the prodigal, returned (re-turned) home. These poems cradle grief and exultation, emptiness and abundance, the keen acuities of loss … and received grace. This collection – its quietude and immensity, deftness of language and depths of feeling – is devastating, stunning, incandescent.
~ Sati Mookherjee, author of Eye and Ways of Being
Home Water, Home Land
Tolsun Books. 2022
Autobiographical in reach and structure, Home Water, Home Land by Katy E. Ellis records and chronicles a coming-of-age, the creation of marriage and family in conjunction with excommunication, expatriatism, and recounts Ellis’ experiences during 9/11. In all these movements—from church, land, and tragedy—it becomes apparent the collection excavates the realm of the exile and does so with grace and compassion marking it as an astonishing book by an exceptional writer.
~Heather Simeney MacLeod, The Burden of Snow, Little Yellow House, Intermission
Nature vs. Girl
(forthcoming July 2026)
Chapbooks
Night Watch, Floating Bridge Press (You can buy it here.)
Gravity, Yellow Flag Press
Urban Animal Expeditions, Dancing Girl Press (You can buy it here.)
Anthologies
I Sing the Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State, Empty Bowl Press
Till the Tide: An Anthology of Mermaid Poetry, Sundress Publications