The Author

Ellis Marsh writes quietly, and not often.

A writer of contemplative memoir and spiritual philosophy, Ellis is the founding author of WhiteWings Integration Press.

Ellis grew up in a house of readers and left it for twelve years to see whether the reading had taken. The answer came back slowly, in fragments, in kitchens and on trains, and eventually as a book. That book became On Returning.

The writing that followed — essays, journal pages, long letters to no one — accumulated into what is now a small imprint. Ellis lives and works between a coastal studio and a borrowed desk in the mountains, and publishes a few short things a year.

“I write so I know what I’m doing here. The book is the leftover, not the point.”