Mary Ellen Greenwood is a lecturer at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. She earned her BA in English and language arts teacher education at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in 1999 and her MS in American studies at USU in 2004. In 2016 she received an award for creative nonfiction at the Writers@Work Fellowship Competition, a nonprofit organization that has successfully promoted and supported a creative writing community – locally, regionally and nationally – for over thirty years. In 2003 Greenwood was named Graduate Instructor of the Year by the USU English Department.