Uglyfish Baking Co.
I’m a writer and a baker. After decades of running our beloved diner in Grand Marais, Michigan, my husband and I have turned a 1974 Airstream Argosy into a bakery and coffee trailer that we operate on our home property in Deer Park, 20 miles east of Grand Marais. We love our new enterprise!
Ellen's Books
I am the author of four novels including Michigan Notable Book TIN CAMP ROAD (featured in People Magazine and also a Michigan Notable Book as well as Michigan’s “Great Places, Great Reads” book for 2023), Michigan Notable Book and Midwest Bestseller, SOUTH OF SUPERIOR (also featured on National Public Radio’s Radio Reader), the award-winning PRAIRIE EVERS, a Bank Street Best Book for middle grade readers, and THE EDUCATION OF IVY BLAKE, a companion book to PRAIRIE EVERS.
Northern Dispatches
Notes from a human who writes and bakes from near the shore of Lake Superior. Topics include: thoughts on existence, observations about the writing life, musings about food and food service, and sometimes a story.
..."a mother-daughter love story…Moving and brave."–PEOPLE
Set against the wide open beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a wise, big hearted novel in which a young single mother and her ten-year-old daughter stand up to the trials of rural poverty and find the community they need in order to survive.
Laurel Hill and her precocious daughter Skye have always been each other’s everything. The pair live on Lake Superior, where the local school has classes of just four children, and the nearest hospital is a helicopter ride away. Though they live frugally, eking out a living with Laurel’s patchwork of jobs, their deep love for each other feels like it can warm them even on the coldest of nights. What more do they need?
Brian Rea
FEATURED:
New York Times MODERN LOVE: A Side Order of Romance, Please