Ellen Kombiyil’s latest poetry collection, Love as Invasive Species (Cornerstone 2024) explores matrilineal inheritances. She is a 2022 and 2025 recipient of a BRIO Award (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) from the Bronx Council on the Arts, and a 2025 winner of the Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Hunter’s MFA program, is an adjunct assistant professor at Hunter College. Find her at www.ellenkombiyil.com.
