AMA {Ask-Me-Anything} w/ Elise Powers

​We're super stoked to host an AMA with Elise Powers. This is your chance to ask about promoting and publishing your poetry today as well as the realities of balancing a writing life with family and work...and really, as ever, anything that pops into your head!

​Elise Powers is a poet whose work explores the complexities of womanhood and the intersections of joy and sorrow. She holds a BA in English Literature with a minor in Writing Studies. Her poems have appeared in literary magazines including Gather and Only Poems, and her work has been recognized as a finalist for the Central Avenue Poetry Prize and second place in the Black Horse Review Poetry Contest. Her debut collection, The Size of Your Joy, is forthcoming from Central Avenue Publishing in spring 2026. She lives in Seattle with her husband and daughter, where she writes, collects sea glass, and savors life’s tender joys.