Elisa Carlsen grew up in Humboldt County, Nevada. An outsider poet and artist, her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Trumpeter, SixFold, VoiceCatcher, Anti-Heroin Chic, Nevada Arts Council, Oranges Journal, and Brushfire. Elisa is the author of Cormorant (Unsolicited Press 2023), a short collection of poetry addressing the human dimensions of a controversial salmon recovery project. Elisa’s poems have won awards from the Writers Guild of Astoria and the Oregon Poetry Association. She was a finalist for the Editor’s Prize at Harbor Review and a nominee for Best of the Net. Elisa is a Poetry Editor for New American Press.