Ellen Kombiyil is the author of Histories of the Future Perfect (2015), and Avalanche Tunnel (2016). She is a two-time winner of the Mary M. Fay Poetry Award from Hunter College, a recipient of an Academy of American Poets college prize, and was awarded the Nancy Dean Medieval Prize for an essay on the acoustic quality of Chaucer’s poetics. She cofounded The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, a mentorship-model press publishing emerging poets from India and the diaspora.