Elena Macdonald is a lesbian writer from Northern Virginia. Elena is the Managing Editor of Poetry Daily. They are also the website editor for Phoebe Journal, and they read for Phoebe Journal, So to Speak Journal, In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction, and Off Season Mag. They received their MFA in Creative Writing & BFA in Creative Writing from GMU. Their work has been featured in The Ekphrastic Review, Kitchen Table Quarterly, The Table Review, and Twin Bird Review.
Elena is currently working on miscellaneous poems and a book-length essay about Felix Gonzalez-Torres, art, and their queer identity.