Braiden Ellis

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Graduate Teaching Assistant
PhD Student

Braiden Ellis is a fiction writer who grew up in Oklahoma and moved to Georgia in 2019. He is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at UGA. As an undergraduate student, he studied Creative Writing and French at Georgia College & State University. During his time at GCSU, he was a volunteer creative writing teacher for middle schoolers in the GCSU Early College program. He spent the 2023-2024 academic year teaching English to French high school students in the Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF). Braiden is especially interested in Southern Gothic fiction. Instagram Twitter

Education:

BA, English (con. Creative Writing), Georgia College & State University, 2023

BA, French Language & Culture, Georgia College & State University, 2023

Selected Publications:

Undergraduate Research, Volume 4, Issue 1 (2024) Summer 2024 - "La liberté face à l’absurde : comment exister dans le monde moderne" | https://kb.gcsu.edu/undergraduateresearch/vol4/iss1/4

MSU Roadrunner Review, Volume 4, December 2022 - "Surpassing the Love of Women" | https://sites.msudenver.edu/roadrunnerreview/issue-4/surpassing-the-love-of-women/

Events featuring Rahad Abir, Daniel Barnum, Andy Bowers, Braiden Ellis, Priyadarshini Oshin Gogoi, John Kuligowski, Asna Nusrat, Sristi Ray, Nik Moore
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The Globe | 199 N. Lumpkin Street Athens, GA

The Creative Writing Program is delighted to present our first event of the 2024-2025 academic year, The New Student Reading! 

We will celebrate the work of ten PhD students! This event is free and open for the public. Refreshments will be served.