Ellen Kombiyil (she/her) is a visual artist, poet, and educator from the Bronx. She is the author of two books and two chapbooks, most recently The American Journal of Insanity’s Diagnostic on the Plumbing and Wiring of Females (Visual Poetry Series Award, forthcoming Anhinga Press 2026), and Love as Invasive Species (Cornerstone 2024). She is a 2022 and 2025 recipient of a BRIO Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts, a 2025 winner of the Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize, and 2025 winner of the Tupelo Quarterly Prize for Cross-Disciplinary Writing. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, DIAGRAM, Sixth Finch, and Ploughshares. She is an adjunct Assistant Professor at Hunter College.