Thoughtful Meandering Ellen Gilmer Ellen Gilmer is originally from Lewisburg, WV, where she grew up studying classical music, art and the humanities, at the same time listening to the local folklore and mountain music and lyrics native to the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains.  Later she attended Greenbrier College in Lewisburg, continuing her studies in the fine arts and completing a liberal arts program before moving on to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she studied with acclaimed artists and writers.  After graduating with a BFA, she moved to New York City, living in Greenwich Village and Soho and working at a variety of jobs while writing, painting and performing as a singing clown.  Ellen has also resided in the Chelsea and Gramercy Park neighborhoods of the city and is currently writing fiction, music and lyrics, and articles on the arts as a correspondent of the International Press Association.  She has won honors from the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England and from the American Biographical Institute, Raleigh, NC.  She is also honored with listings in Marquis' Who's Who in American Women and Who's Who in the World, and she currently holds the position of Lady (of the Roundtable) in the Sovereign Order of the Knights of Justice, England.