Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe is a Witch, Mama, Auntie, a queer feminist, poet, performer, curator & filmmaker born in Dayton, Ohio 1968. She is white within the oppressive system of whiteness & is a daughter of Earth. Both realities inform her work & life. Ellen has performed at Vulva Riot, LadyFest, Dyke Night, HotBed, Queertopia, Late Nite, Genderblur, Naked Stages, Bedlam, Poetry & Pie, Patrick’s Cabaret, Pleasure Rebel, Pangea and Girls in Their Bedroom. She is a lifelong DIY artist- self publishing books and producing independent films and performances. She also works with Pangea World Theater as the program director for Lake Street Arts! creating placekeeping connections, public art and performances along Lake Street in Minneapolis.
Ellen is sustained by the Spirit Voices- that do not die, by (way too occasional) all night dance parties, the good company of friends, animals, plants and the generosity of Ancestors & Earth. She lives in Minneapolis two blocks from Haha Wakpa/Mississippi River on Dakota Land with Juma B. Essie and their amazing daughter & multiple animals.
Thank you for your interest in my work.
Contact me at- unrulyspellsATgmail.com
My work includes:
* Unruly Spells (Poems) 2025
*Call Me Back 2025- A solo performance about Witches and Stepping off the pretorters path as part Pangea World Theater's Milkweed Maps Festival of New Work
* The 2023 performance collaboration with Gabrielle Civil- Murmurations
* The ensemble performance Life Born of Fire, 2022 & 2023
* The books Fierce Shimmer- Poems for Mama and Walk Towards It- an anthology of Resistance released on inauguration day 2017
*The films– Thought Woman- The Life and Ideas of Paula Gunn Allen and Art Letter (For Gabrielle Civil)
* Ellen is currently writing a memoir of her late teens to early twenties entitled What Remains.
Please feel free to share poems, videos and writing with anyone who might be interested. Please do not plagiarize or profit from my work- although if you figure out how to make a profit from my poetry-
I might forgive you and ask you how the hell you did it!