Elena Johnson (she/her/elle)

Elena Johnson is the author of Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra (Gaspereau Press), a collection of poems set in a remote ecology research station in the Yukon. Her poems have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada and internationally, translated into French, set to music, sung by choirs and displayed on public transit. A finalist for the CBC Literary Prizes and the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, she holds degrees in Environmental Studies and Creative Writing, has a special interest in ecopoetry, and is a co-editor of Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House, 2021). Johnson lives in Vancouver on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people, where she works as an editor and writing mentor.

Being an artist in residence at Fool’s Paradise is especially significant to her, as she has a particular fondness for Lake Ontario and the Scarborough Bluffs. She is originally from New Brunswick but spent most of her school-age years in Scarborough, a short walk away from the Bluffs. She is currently at work on a new poetry collection. @elena.e.johnson (Instagram) Website