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Ellen Gilchrist is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet.
Victory over Japan, a collection of short stories, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1984. Gilchrist has also won awards for her poetry, although it is her short fiction for which she is most well-known.
Gilchrist was heard regularly as a commentator on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition from 1984-1985.