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Ellie Herman is an American television writer, teacher and blogger, based in Los Angeles, California.
She has written for Melrose Place , My So-Called Life , Desperate Housewives , Jericho , Century City , That Was Then , Significant Others , Relativity , Chicago Hope , Doogie Howser, M.D. , Northern Exposure , Gabriel's Fire , Newhart , Moon Over Miami and The Riches .
She has a teaching blog, "Gatsby In L.A.," about a teacher's journey through the classrooms of Los Angeles.
In 1989, she received an O. Henry Award for her short story "Unstable Ground". [1]
She received a PEN Center USA Freedom to Write award in 2011 for Animo Pat Brown Charter High School's literary journal Truth.