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 interests, which are always evolving, and have included 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 late-in-life ADHD diagnoses, whales, Neanderthals, life transitions, and other obsessions.

She has an MFA in fiction and nonfiction from Western Washington University, and teaches composition and literature at Clark College. As a teacher, she is passionate about creative and student-led approaches to writing process, curious research, and media literacy.