Ellie Leonard is an author and owner of Red Pencil Transcripts, a small company that works with podcasts, documentary films, popular shows, other authors, PhD-level research projects, and journalists at several major newspapers including the New York and Los Angeles Times. She has also worked as an editor for over a decade, including a small stint in publishing in Seattle, WA.

Outside of her work-life Ellie is a mom to four wild kids, a member of a railroad family, a classical history major, a bibliophile, and a closeted classically-trained pianist. She has goals of becoming multilingual and one day writing for the independent film industry.

Ellie is represented by Vicki Marsdon at High Spot Literary.