Elena Karina Byrne, the author of three books of poetry, most recently Squander (Omnidawn 2016). Her collection Phantom Limbs is forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2021. Elena is a freelance editor and Literary Programs Director for The Ruskin Art Club. Her publications include the Pushcart Prize XXXIII, Best American Poetry, Poetry, The Paris Review, APR, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Yale Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Verse, BOMB, and is forthcoming in VOLT, Denver Quarterly, Poetry International, and PerseaBook's: The Eloquent Poem, among others. She is completing: Voyeur Hour: Meditations on Poetry, Art & Desire.