Elena Rotzokou is a writer and PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she works on British Romanticism, transatlantic literary cultures, and questions of literary form, pressure, silence, and historical change. Her academic writing has appeared in European Romantic Review and Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, and is forthcoming in Early American Studies.

She also writes poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism. Her creative writing has appeared in Flash Frog, Josephine Quarterly, Rust & Moth, Gooseberry Pie Lit Mag, Still Point Journal, ONE ART, and Eunoia Review. Across genres, her work is drawn to form, intimacy, restraint, memory, and the strange ways ordinary life becomes legible through language. She is based in Manhattan.