Avra Elliott is a queer Latina writer and toymaker from New Mexico. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Barrow Street, Waxwing, Crab Orchard Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Tinderbox, and other journals. Her textile work can be found through Etsy at Spindle and Sparrow. She has been a finalist for the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize as well as Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry.