Ella Longpre

Ella Longpre is the author of How to Keep You Alive (Civil Coping Mechanisms 2017), as well as three chapbooks of poetry, image, and prose. She has worked at The Fanzine, Bombay Gin, and The Massachusetts Review; her work has appeared in the Volta and the Denver Quarterly, as well as other journals and anthologies, and was recently translated into French. Ella lives and writes in Colorado, where she is earning her PhD at the University of Denver. She received her MFA from the Jack Kerouac School in Boulder, where she was awarded an Anne Waldman Fellowship and received a grant from the City of Boulder Arts Council. She's taught creative writing workshops at Naropa and the Putney Summer Arts Program in Vermont. Ella is nothing without her chosen family and can be found in the woods.