Ellen Boyette is a poet and essayist whose work is interested in the occult, the internet, and how to occupy oneself as an object. She received her MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first book of poetry, BEDIEVAL, was a finalist at Slope Editions, CSU Press, and Inside the Castle.  Her work appears in poets.org, Poetry Daily, The Columbia Review, Denver Quarterly, Bennington Review, New Delta Review, and elsewhere.​ She has two chapbooks, NITROUS OR MY VELVET KNIFE (2024) and CUFFING SEASON (2023). She is now dipping her toe into the realm of translation and hybrid prose.