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Ellen Kombiyil is a visual artist, poet, and educator from the Bronx. Her latest poetry collection, Love as Invasive Species (Cornerstone 2024) is a tête-bêche exploring matrilineal inheritances. Her visual art has been displayed at Emerge Gallery and is published in Action Spectacle, Bear Review, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, Radar, TAB, and The Indianapolis Review and she has new poems appearing in Sixth Finch, Breakwater Review (as a finalist for the Peseroff Poetry Contest), Cherry Tree, NELLE, Raleigh Review, Second Factory, and Tahoma Literary Review. 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.