Elisávet Makridis, a US-born great-granddaughter of Pontic Greek refugees, is a Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominated cross-disciplinary poet and educator. Recipient of the Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, Elisávet earned an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University where she taught for four years as a lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English. Her writing has received multiple awards and honors, selected most recently as a finalist for RHINO Poetry's 2026 Founders' Prize and Black Warrior Review's inaugural Experimental Forms Contest and named a semifinalist for the Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition (Black Lawrence Press). A 2026 McCormack (formerly Tin House) Winter Online Workshop Participant, Elisávet's work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, RHINO, Poetry Northwest, Washington Square Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Canthius, amongst others. Her poetics aim to calibrate otherwise ways of communing with infinite ancestral beloveds across a lineage of forced displacement, refugeehood, and genocide to metabolize a wail that predates her body. Find her online at elisavetmakridis.com.
