Ellen Kombiyil (she/her) is a visual artist, poet, and educator from the Bronx. She is currently at work on a project of “erasing war” and creating original erasures, collages, and visual art from war ephemera in the Western cannon, including LIFE magazine (1942), The Guidebook for Marines (1957), The ROTC Manual, Freshmen Course, First Year Basic (1921), The Iliad (various translations) and archived work at the picture collection from the NYPL. Her latest poetry collection, Love as Invasive Species, a tête-bêche exploring matrilineal inheritances, is just released with Cornerstone Press (University of Wisconsin). Her visual art has been displayed at Emerge Gallery and is published or forthcoming in Bear Review, DIAGRAM, TAB, and The Indianapolis Review and she has new poems appearing in or forthcoming with Sixth Finch and Cherry Tree. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Hunter’s MFA program, she currently teaches writing at Hunter College.
