Ellen Vanderslice

Ellen Vanderslice writes songs like they don't write anymore, and then she writes songs like nobody wrote before. In her day gig, she's an architect and an internationally-known advocate for pedestrian rights, but her songwriting chops just keep growing. With co-composer Mike Horsfall, she won First Prize Jazz in the 2002 USA Songwriting Competition for "Moonshadow Dance," and since 1999 she's won first place four times in the Blues/Jazz/R&B category of the Portland Songwriters Association National Song Contest.