Please answer the following question: Ellis Avery - Ellis Avery is an American writer. She has won two Stonewall Book Awards in 2008 for her debut novel The Teahouse Fire and in 2013 for her second novel The Last Nude. The Teahouse Fire also won a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction and an Ohioana Library Fiction Award in 2007.An out lesbian she teaches creative writing at Columbia University. She previously taught creative writing at the University of California at Berkeley. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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Artist