Ellie Anglin is a Toronto based writer of prose and poetry as well as a visual artist who works mostly in collage. She has been the sole- or co-creator of 10 zines. She was the recipient of the 2011 Toronto Arts Council grant for Emerging Visual Artists. Her work has been published in The Hart House Review, Steel Bananas, Broken Pencil, Papirmasse and Little Brother. Her first book, Tender Buttons is now available.
Check out more of her work here.
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Ellie and her book, Tender Buttons:
Tender Buttons is a fusion of collage and flash fiction, lovingly created by
Ellie Anglin. Each
full-colour book is numbered, signed and hand-bound by the artist, and has a one-of-a-kind
collaged book sleeve. $12
“After surviving a mysterious and dark
childhood, an emotionally stunted narrator struggles with mental illness,
self-injury, and to reconcile her queerness with her strange spiritualism. Our deeply repressed and simple heroine’s true
sadness is only glimpsed at through frequent cracks in the delirious, slavish
narrative about her prized Button Collection. The accompanying collages serve
to open these cracks wider, giving a literal glimpse of her true desperation. If you like flash fiction, collage, and strange, sad women, Tender
Buttons might be the one for you.
Self-Published
in Toronto, Ontario in 2012.
76 pp. ISBN #
978-0-9879898-0-2
