Ellen Kombiyil
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Mixed Media Collages
Ellen Kombiyil (she/her) is a visual artist, poet, and educator from the Bronx. She is currently at work on a project of “erasing war” and creating original erasures, collages, and visual art from war ephemera in the Western canon. 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, TAB, and The Indianapolis Review and she has new poems appearing in Sixth Finch, Cherry Tree, Second Factory, and Tahoma Literary Review. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Hunter’s MFA program, she currently teaches writing at Hunter College. Find her at www.ellenkombiyil.com
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