Originally from Seattle, Elizabeth Kate Switaj currently works at the College of the Marshall Islands on Majuro Atoll. She is the author most recently of Serial Experiments (Alien Buddha Press, 2025) and The Articulations (Kernpunkt Press, 2024). The Bringers of Fruit (11:11 Press, 2022) won the 2023 Whirling Prize from Etchings Press at the University of Indianapolis. She holds a PhD in English from Queen’s University Belfast and an MFA in Poetics and Creative Writing from the now-defunct New College of California. She has also taught English in Japan and China.