Bio

Ellen Austin-Li's work has appeared in Artemis, Thimble Literary, The Maine Review, Salamander, Rust + Moth, SWWIM, and many other places. A Best of the Net nominee, she's published two chapbooks with Finishing Line Press: Firefly and Lockdown: Scenes From Early in the Pandemic. She earned an MFA in Poetry at the Solstice Low-Residency Program. Ellen co-founded the monthly reading series, "Poetry Night at Sitwell's," in Cincinnati, where she lives with her husband in a newly empty nest. Find her @www.ellenaustinli.me.

Leave
Deep
Water
Exploring
To those that bear light
In maritime trenches of night.