SWWIM sustains and celebrates women poets by connecting creatives across generations and by curating a living archive of contemporary poetry, while solidifying Miami as a nexus for the literary arts.

Landscape with Convalescence

 


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.

 

Starting Over

Be Careful What You Fall in Love With