Ellendea Proffer Teasley is an American author, publisher, and translator of Russian literature into English.
She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1966.[1][2] She married Carl R. Proffer (1938–1984), and co-founded Ardis Publishers in 1971, a specializing in Russian literature, both in English and Russian.
His papers are held at University of Michigan.[3] She donated a collection of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondences, books, photographs, and proofs, to the University of Michigan's Library.[4] In 2002, she sold Ardis Press to Overlook Press.[5][6]