Elicia is currently getting her Master’s in International Conflict Resolution in Portland, OR. She has been writing poetry since a young age, capitalizing on heartache since teenage-Dom, and is now solving wars–one poem at a time. She won second place in a poetry slam once and thoroughly enjoyed being an editor of a college lit magazine for a few terms. She prefers Anne Sexton over Sylvia Plath and has learned a lot from Derrick Brown (friend and leader in performance poetry). She has spent the past six months living and working in Cyprus and traveling around Europe. This is the first time her poems have been published.