Hello love,

Elzada James is an autistic mother and poet moored in the mountain lowlands of the Pacific Northwest, where she likes to sit in a cozy spot by the window and just watch the rain. She loves a good ghost story.

Exploring the intersections of neurodivergence, childhood trauma, motherhood, and disability, Elzada's work has been featured in A Week in Substack Poetry, and has been published in a few literary magazines.

She is also the winner of Ink, Fire, and Rebellion's inaugural contest with her poem "Little Boys Boom," and the grand champion of their Winner's Circle contest with "Julia Child Didn't Want to Say Goodbye Either."

Her first collection is forthcoming in 2026.