About Ellen Apswoude
Ellen Apswoude (Aps-WOOD) is a writer based in Melbourne. Over Ellen's long and storied career she has mastered the White Swan and the Black Swan, successfully bathed a Mogwai without incident and completed both the Kessel Run and the Kobayashi Maru.
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