Elena Montes is a Costa Rican-American poet, fiction writer, and artist, originally from Los Angeles, California. She holds a BA in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where she received the 2024 Andrea Klein Wilson Award for Poetry for two poems featured in her debut collection, Wishbones. Now, Elena lives in her adoptive city of New York with her partner and cat. When she’s not writing in her journal, she can be found cooking family-style meals for friends and sharing memories around the dinner table — an extension of her love for storytelling and connection.
PRAISE:
“Reading Elena’s poems “Mi Media Naranja,” “Funeral,” & “Wishbones,” I find them both direct and quiet– speaking from the bone, the orange, the iron water– they resonate with an emotional clarity of vision.”
–Chessy Normile, Author of Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Part, -recipient of the 2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize)
Precise and vivid, these poems cut to the heart—honest in voice, sharply crafted, deeply vulnerable, and powerfully compelling.
–Mandy Kahn, Author of and performer of Gateways to Peace performed at the Getty and the Barrick Museums-Innovator of “immersive poems”-Best American Poetry selectee-American Life of Poetry selectee
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