Ellen Sheffield

Ellen Sheffield is an artist, poet and educator based in Point Richmond, CA with 28 years of experience in academia in various roles including college art gallery director, summer writing program coordinator for the literary journal The Kenyon Review and most recently instructor emeritus, retiring after teaching book arts and related courses in Kenyon College’s Art Department. She continues to teach workshops for SFCB and other institutions around the country. In her studio practice, Unit IV Arts, she focuses on creating artists’ books that play with text and image interactions to create unexpected readings. Her books can be found in numerous library special collections including Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature and Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.