Elena Asofsky is a writer, poet, and second-year M.F.A. candidate in fiction at Syracuse University. They graduated with a B.A. and honors in English from Bryn Mawr College in 2021, where they were awarded the 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize. Elena grew up in Maryland, where they learned to paint and raise tadpoles. Their writing is concerned with otherness, humanity’s relationship to violence, and the many forms of love.