Ellen Graf writes out of rural upstate New York where she lives with her husband Zhong-Hua Lu. She is a graduate of Bennington College Writing Seminars in non-fiction. Her first book, “The Natural Laws of Good Luck: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage,” details her marriage to a man in China whom she barely knew. The book has been selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover New Authors promotion and the Borders Books Original Voices award. Graf is a recipient of both the Ludwig Volgelstein Writers Grant and of the New York Foundation for the Arts 2009 Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature.
