The Ellis Review

Oriana, you're currently a student at Yale who has received quite a few notable distinctions—U.S. Presidential Scholar, National...

Was music journalism a long-time dream for you, or did the job find you? (And, same question about being a poet; was it something that...

Things are gorgeous if they’re yours, dull if they aren’t. Home isn’t the boxes in it, nor even the people. It’s the place that grew with...

The wonderful poem you're republishing with us, "Why We Don't Have Children," was originally in Rattle. Could you talk a little bit about...

First of all, I just wanted to say congratulations on all of your achievements so far: you're a Kundiman fellow, have had a wide variety...

I never really understood where I was, or where I was going. I was that dot, the you are here. I was that arrow on Maps. I bobbed every...

I'm really curious about your background as a child of Polish and Cuban parents, which is just such a unique perspective to bring into...

Eloisa, you're an accomplished writer — three chapbooks, various fellowships, and many, many poems. Why do you think writing is so...

Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we first assume, and that being able to derive happiness from discovery is...

While America surely transformed some of these impoverished emigres into wealthy returnees, it turned many more into something...