Elena Karina Byrne is the author of four poetry collections and a chapbook. A Pushcart Prize recipient, her work has been published in The Paris Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, Poetry, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, Volt, American Poetry Review, Poetry International, Poetry Daily, Narrative, Denver Quarterly, Plume, and elsewhere. Former regional director of the Poetry Society of America, Byrne is an editor, lecturer, poetry consultant, moderator for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and the literary programs director for the historic Ruskin Art Club.