Elena Botts

Elena Botts grew up in the Washington DC area, lived briefly in Berlin
and Johannesburg, and now attends college in upstate New York and NYC.
She is a poet, writer, and artist. She has been published in over a
hundred literary magazines over the past few years. She has won four
poetry contests, including ‘Word Works Young Poets’. Her poetry has been
exhibited at galleries in the Hudson Valley and DC areas, as well as
across the country. Check out her poetry books, “a little
luminescence”​, through small press, Allbook-Books (2011), “we’ll
beachcomb for their broken bones”​ through Coffeetown Press (2015), “the
sadness of snow”​ through Transcendent Zero Press (2017), and a poetry
chapbook through Red Ochre Press (2013). Additionally, her visual art
has won several awards and she has started making sound and moving image
art.