Ellyn Bache's fiction has appeared in dozens of commercial and literary magazines, ranging from Shenandoah and Ascent to Seventeen and Good Housekeeping; been collected in a book (...ver maisEllyn Bache's fiction has appeared in dozens of commercial and literary magazines, ranging from Shenandoah and Ascent to Seventeen and Good Housekeeping; been collected in a book (The Value of Kindness) that won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize; and been a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award in short fiction. She has also written nine novels. One of them, Safe Passage, was made into a film starring Susan Sarandon, and another, The Art of Saying Goodbye (William Morrow, 2011), was an “Okra Pick” from the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), and a SIBA Book Award nominee.ver menos