Ellen Kombiyil is the author of Histories of the Future Perfect, forthcoming in 2015. Recent work appears in Barely South Review, Poemeleon, Redactions and Stone Canoe. She has read and performed at the Prakriti Poetry festival in Chennai, India, and Lekhana in Bangalore, where she also taught a poetry and performance workshop. She has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes, a Best of the Net and was second runner up in the 2014 Carriage House Poetry Prize. Ellen co-founded The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, a mentorship-model publishing collective, which aims to create a community of artists nurturing artists.