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American Journal of Insanity’s Diagnostic on the Plumbing and Wiring of Females

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Love as Invasive Species

An image of the book cover for Love as Invasive Species. A Girl, holding up a mask with a lion's nose to her face. Her hair is a mane in which flowers, grasses, and fauna such as bees, caterpillers, a tarantula, an egret, and slugs emerge.

Cover Art © Maiko Kikuchi

Anhinga Press, September 2026
Visual Poetry Series Award

"Ellen Kombiyil's Plumbing and Wiring is a breathtaking and electric exercise in revisionism. Each page of erasure offers depth, texture, and story to an otherwise controversial publication, forcing the reader to look through its occluded windows, to see the 'wayward and capricious' women who populate the centuries of metatext. Kombiyil does not just elude genre; she makes image and text sing, wordlessly, to and with each other."  

grace (ge) gilbert, on Diagnostic on the Plumbing &Wiring of Females

Winner of

The TQ36 Prize for Cross Disciplinary Writing

Judge's Citation: 

"Ellen Kombiyil uses redaction, collage, and recombination to expose a dark history. The result is both acerbically witty and harrowing, a master class in the potentials of image and text."

- Hasanthika Sirisena

Awarded for my work "American Journal of Insanity" which can be read in Tupelo Quarterly

Winner of

The Geri DiGiorno Multi-Genre Prize

The prize was given for a poem “Translation” and an erasure + visual poem “Squad Tactics as Equations Depicting Loss” from the Guidebook for Marines (1954), which are from my forthcoming book-length visual lyric essay My Prayer a Slit Throat: erasing the inheritance of war.

Purchase the issue that contains the prize winning work here

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