Carolyn Ellis is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Communication and Sociology at the University of South Florida and a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association. Her work has advanced the study of autoethnography through the integration of ethnographic, literary, and evocative writing to portray and make sense of lived experience in cultural context. She is coeditor of the Handbook of Autoethnography (with Tony Adams and Stacy Holman Jones), coauthor of Evocative Autoethnography and the Routledge Book Series, Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives (both with Art Bochner). Recently she has written about joy and hope in autoethnographic inquiry and is currently working with Art on a new book project, Living an Autoethnographic Life. She lives in Safety Harbor, Florida and Franklin, North Carolina with Art and their canine companions, Malee and Dali.