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.