Ellen Kombiyil

Ellen Kombiyil (she/her) is a visual artist, poet, and educator from the Bronx. She is the author of two poetry collections, Histories of the Future Perfect (2014) and Love as Invasive Species (2024), a tête-bêche exploring matrilineal inheritances. A 2022 BRIO Award winner (Bronx recognizes Its Own), her visual art has been displayed at Emerge Gallery and is published or forthcoming in Bear Review, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, TAB, and The Indianapolis Review and she has new poems appearing in or forthcoming with Sixth Finch, Second Factory, Cherry Tree, and Tahoma Literary Review. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Hunter’s MFA program, she currently teaches writing at Hunter College. Find her at www.ellenkombiyil.com.