Elfie

Elfie Nelson (they/she) is a first year student in the University of Washington Bothell Creative Writing and Poetics MFA program. They hold an MA in creative writing from University of California, Davis, where they taught and wrote poetry. After 3 years as a community college English instructor, their goal is to overhaul the structures of academia in favor of something equitable and inclusive that better reflects the limitations of the anthropocene. Their creative interests include digital spaces, collective narratives, augmented reality, horror, and dreamcore. Their hypertext work Directional Pilgrim was featured in the 2021 ELO Conference exhibition, "Platforming Utopias (and Platformed Dystopias)." They live in the PNW with their partner and two cats, Joyce Carol and The Professor.