Elizabeth Spenst

Elizabeth Spenst is a writer, researcher, and event producer. She is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet with poetry, criticism, nonfiction, and interviews appearing in Rattle, On the Seawall, the Tuskegee Review, Paste Magazine, ARTS.BLACK, the Ekphrastic Review, and elsewhere. She's received institutional support for her research and writing from Yale University, the New School, Cave Canem, and Brooklyn Poets. With over 10 years of experience in event production, she continues to host arts related events online and in person. A child of Trinidadian and Russian Mennonite diasporas, she’s currently at home in Brooklyn, NY.