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Ella Wilson grew up on the Yorkshire moors in England and moved to New York in 2002, where she currently works as head writer and creative director of the advertising agency Dead As We Know It. She has been writing nonfiction for the past seven years and received her MFA from The New School in May 2009. Ella is currently working on a collection of personal essays titled, Existentially Challenged: A Merry Romp Through Illness, Depression and Death. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Brooklyn, NY.
When my mother died the nurse came running. I heard her feet, muffled and far, thudding down the carpeted corridor. A hospice is no place for running; no one is there to be saved, there are no emergencies. If someone dies it is not a failure. They have fulfilled their part of the bargain. But [...]