ABOUT

In 2004, Ellen launched her career as a freelance photographer working primarily for the Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Her photography has also appeared in the Washington Post, Scientific American, Down East, Wild Apples, and Audubon Adventures.

Ellen's clients include Shrewsbury Montessori School, Fay School, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Boston Latin School, Inspired Design, World Vision, Old Sturbridge Village, and SustainaMetrix. Her work has taken her to Uganda, Rwanda, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

In 2008, Ellen teamed up with children's author Loree Burns to create The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe. The book, published in the spring of 2010, is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Scientists in the Field series. It profiles bee wranglers and scientists across the country who have been working to understand why honey bees are disappearing. Another Scientist in the Field book, this one about the Asian long-horned beetle, is in the works and will be published in 2013. Ellen and Loree's newest book Citizen Scientists was published by Henry Holt in February 2012, and a picture book about butterflies is in the works with a 2014 publication date.

Ellen is a member of the American Society for Media Photographers (ASMP), the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).