Elina Katrin is a Syrian-Russian immigrant and the author of the poetry chapbook, If My House Has a Voice (Newfound). Her writing was selected as a semi-finalist for The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and has appeared in Electric Literature, Poetry Daily, Sundog Lit, and elsewhere. A 2025 Vermont Studio Center and Periplus fellow, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University. She currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.