Soul Surfing — The Surfer’s Journal (a "notable essay” in the Best American Essays 2025)

Wow Is Me — a newsletter about awe and divine wowness

Whales, From Above — The New York Times (2024 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award)

Soup Can Save the World, and so can prayer!

Playboy — contributing fiction editor

Rewriting McCullers — The Los Angeles Review of Books

Ellie Duke is a writer, editor, and creative producer from Vermont who lives in Springs, NY. She has worked as an editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and Hyperallergic, and has written for various arts and culture magazines such as the New York Times, the Surfer’s Journal, and Art in America. She curates and organizes exhibitions and unusual events on the east end of Long Island, where she also works as studio director for the sculptor Fitzhugh Karol.

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