She has a BA in Poetry and has published pieces with killpoet press, Citizens for Decent Literature, heroin love songs, In Between Altered States, and Sweatpants & Coffee. In 2016, Elly's first book, Says the Speck, was released by Kleft Jaw Press, she was a featured poet in Flagstaff artist Elizabeth Hellstern's Telepoem Booth, and she was featured on The Phoenix New Times 100 Creatives list. Recently, Elly has also been a featured speaker and performer for Arizona Masters of Poetry at the Thunderbird Arts Center and featured poet for the long-running Caffeine Corridor Poetry series in Phoenix. She's currently holed up in an apartment somewhere in Scottsdale, working on her next manuscript and hoping it won't take another 15 years to publish that one.