Peyton Ellas writes from the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. Their work has appeared in The Milkhouse, Pilgrimage Press, Copperfield Review Quarterly, Fragmented Voices’ Heart/Home summer anthology, FiftyWordStories, Streetcake Magazine, Gihon River Review, OnTheBus, and elsewhere. They write gardening features for local news media and is the author of Gardening with California Native Plants: Inland, Foothill, and Central Valley Gardens. When not writing, they work as a landscape contractor and owner of a small organic farm. Whatever time is left over is spent with their dogs, pet sheep, and a pet steer named Charlie who has his own fan club.
