• SCC Dual-Credit Adjunct
• Speech Coach, Slam Poetry Coach, Theater Director
• NSCTA member
• 2024, 2025 Young Writers Camp Instructor

Grace Ellis’s time with the Nebraska Writing Project began as a student in high school participating in a place-based writing retreat hosted by NeWP and the Young Writers Camp program. She was later able to attend the Summer Institute in 2023 before returning to the Advanced Institute in 2024. Grace served as a high school English teacher at Fairbury Jr./Sr. High School where she began teaching in 2022. She is starting a new position with Meridian Public Schools in fall 2025.  Grace feels very fortunate to have been able to bring slam poetry to Fairbury in the form of an All Writes Reserved team, which is a program of the Nebraska Writers Collective. Grace’s experiences have shown her how important of an outlet writing can be for students.

Grace believes that stories have both a long history and a bright future in connecting us a human beings. That connection manifests itself in the things we both read and write about. As a teacher, Grace has found immense joy in watching her students’ stories unfold through their writing. Whether it is a daily quick write, a creative short story, a personal narrative, or an argumentative essay, Grace truly believes that all forms of writing serve to fulfill our innate human needs to connect, to be heard, and to be remembered.