Ellen Kanner is the author of the novel The Last Refuge, finalist for the Doris Bakwin Prize and Love in the Time of Broccoli: One Joyful Vegetarian's Path to a Beautiful Life. She is the recipient of an Individual Arts Grant in Literature from the State of Florida, the Edgy Veggie, a nationally syndicated columnist with McClatchy newspapers, contributing editor with Pages and book reviewer for publications including AARP, More and the Miami Herald. She also writes for Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Eating Well, Vegetarian Times and regional magazines across the country including Pebble Beach and Palm Beach Illustrated. Her work appears in anthologies including Writers Ask, Writing For Your Life and The Luxury of Tears.

A fourth-generation Floridian, she lives in Miami.