ellie swensson is a queer southern ex-pat currently writing poems in Denver, CO. she earned her MFA from Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in 2015. she is the founder and co-director of Bolder Writers Warehouse, a mobile writers’ community resource. swensson is a firm believer that poetics is what occurs where eros, divinity, and careful craft intersect. Her poems are published in a handful of places you may know, but she prefers her words alive in the mouth and the body. her debut poetry collection, salt of us, published by Punch Drunk Press is available now.