Ellie Cheng is a writer based in New York. She has been featured in The Notre Dame Review, Phoebe Journal, and The Gravity of the Thing.

…She is the winner of the Henfield Prize (2025), was nominated for the PEN America/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers (2023), and placed second for the Peter S. Prescott Prose Prize (2023). Currently, Ellie is pursuing her MFA in Writing at Columbia University. You can find her perusing teapots, hunting down sake bars, or scrolling through Instagram Reels.

Writing

“F*t” — The Notre Dame Review, Summer/Fall 2023 (Issue 56)

“The Infinite Time Around” — Phoebe Journal, Spring 2023 (Issue 52.1)

“A Time After Fireflies” — The Gravity of the Thing, Fall 2022