Elzada James 

is an autistic mother and poet moored in the mountain lowlands of the Pacific Northwest. She loves to crack a black thumb in her little suburban garden, birdwatch like her grandfather, and make magic anytime she has the capacity to be awake.

She loves a good ghost story. And espresso. 

And the sound of rain on the roof - such glory! Her heaving soul, made almost entirely of seawater, longs for quieter days. A fisherman's sad daughter, a selkie singing the strangest of songs. 

Studying by candlelight the craft of a poem, how to bring our spirits home.

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The work of Elzada James has been featured in A Week in Substack Poetry, and has been published in Opol, PHIL LIT Journal, Poetry & Purpose Magazine, and elsewhere. 

Her first collection - a personal reckoning of early motherhood, neurodivergent discovery, and traumatic collapse - is forthcoming.