Ellen Austin-Li is a poet published in Artemis, Thimble Literary Magazine, Writers Tribe Review, The Maine Review, The New Verse News, Memoir Mixtapes, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Masque & Spectacle, Green Briar Review, Panoply, Anti-Heroin Chic, and other places. Her first chapbook, Firefly, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2019, and her second chapbook, Lockdown: Scenes From Early in the Pandemic, is forthcoming in 2021. A recipient of the Martin B. Bernstein Fellowship in Poetry, she is an MFA in Poetry candidate at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. Ellen lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and two sons.