Dean Ellis is a writer and translator living in New Orleans. His work has appeared in Bloodroot, Cosmonauts Avenue, The New Orleans Review, The Puritan, Maple Leaf Rag, The Iron Lattice, Working Stiff (PBS.org), St. Petersburg Review, and the KGB Bar Lit Magazine. His translation (with Jaime Braz) of Jacinto Lucas Pires' novel The True Actor was published by Dzanc Books in November 2013. He hosts the radio programs Tudo Bem and The Dean's List on WWOZ-FM 90.7 (wwoz.org) in New Orleans.