Elya Braden took a long detour from her creative endeavors to pursue an eighteen-year career as a corporate lawyer and entrepreneur. She is now a writer and mixed-media artist living in Los Angeles and is assistant editor of Gyroscope Review. Her work has been published in Algebra of Owls, Calyx, Rattle Poets Respond, Willow Review and elsewhere and has been nominated for Best of the Net. Her chapbook, Open The Fist, will be released in June 2020 from Finishing Line Press. You can find her online at www.elyabraden.com.