JBooks.com Interview, December 2007: Ellen on the history of The Golden Dreydl and turning a spoken word performance into a book kids would want to read.

Book Expo Interview, July 2007: An audio interview with Ellen about The Golden Dreydl.

Scifi.com Interview, March 2007: Ellen discusses how The Privilege of the Sword works for teens and the ways in which it looks at family.
 
Scifi.com Interview, December 2006: Ellen talks about The Privilege of the Sword, gender and sword fighting.
 
Bantam Spectra Author's Notes, August 2006: To mark the publication of The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen answers her publisher's questions about her writing process, food, travel, furniture and books she wishes she'd written.

Science Fiction Book Club Interview, August 2006: The Science Fiction Book Club has put out a special "omnibus" edition of Swordspoint, The Privilege of the Sword, and three linking short stories, called Swords of Riverside. SFBC's Edith Cohn talks with Ellen about the new novel and her career in writing and radio.
 
Interview, July 26, 2006: Author & blogger John Scalzi talks with Ellen about everything from the making of Sound & Spirit to the motives for Interstitial Arts to The Privilege of the Sword – which Scalzi calls "fantasy's answer to The Catcher in the Rye."

Jewsweek, July 2004: Ellen rants about myth, modernity, and bellbottoms.
 
The Lord of the Rings, Nov. 2002: Ellen discusses the making of the Sound & Spirit program, The Lord of the Rings.
 
Strange Horizons, Nov. 2002: Steve Berman asks Ellen about radio, performance, writing, and interstitial fiction.
 
The Jewish Week, December 2001: A look at how and why Ellen and the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra created The Golden Dreydl: A Klezmer Nutcracker.

Panel at MIT, Dec. 1997: Ellen joins Sarah Zettel and MIT faculty Henry Jenkins and Joe Haldeman for a wide-ranging talk on Thomas the Rhymer, Sound & Spirit, storytelling, ballads, fantasy, race, and the Young Trollopes.