Eleanor Howell is an essayist, fiction writer, and writing teacher. She grew up on the coast of Maine and now lives in Portland, Oregon. She writes about her many evolving interests, which include pop culture criticism through a feminist lens, gender and sexuality, ecology, natural history, identity, and living in a human (animal) body. Her work has appeared in The Southeast Review, The Normal School, Pithead Chapel, Bitch Media, Hobart, and elsewhere. She is currently working on an essay collection about adult ADHD diagnoses, whales, Neanderthals, life transitions, and other obsessions.
She has a BA in English from Bryn Mawr College and an MFA in Creative Writing, fiction and nonfiction, from Western Washington University. She is an Adjunct English Professor at Clark College, where she teaches rhetoric and composition and English literature. As a teacher, she is passionate about creative and student-led approaches to the writing process, curiosity-driven reading and research, and media literacy.