Elle Hope is a national touring interdisciplinary poet who writes about her culture, her body, and the many trials and tribulations of being a woman. She has featured at venues such as House of Blues, Brooklyn Bowl, and The Space.

Hope has been featured in Desert Companion’s “Ones to Watch 2022” magazine release, and she was nominated Poet of the Year by @TheJamLV in 2019.

She has also headlined at Art Festivals including “Wave In” Festival by Black Mountain Institute and the Utah Arts Festival. Her work has been published by Nevada Humanities, The Beyond the Neon Anthology, Shout-out LA, the Unpopular Passion Podcast, and many more exhibitions. 

Her work has been displayed in exhibitions across the nation including the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, The Living Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and HerStory exhibition in Los Angeles, CA. Hope recently completed her first performance residency with Vegas City Opera in their Black History Month and Women’s History Month programming.

She works closely with pro-choice organizations such as Wild West Fund to advocate for bodily autonomy for all women and provide financial assistance to those seeking abortion care. She was a guest presenter for the Bans Off Our Bodies Rally presented by Planned Parenthood.

Hope is mostly known for her continuous activism to honor her local poetic community. She is the creator and host of the poetry exclusive open mic and slam master of Spotlight Poetry (@spotlightpoetrylv). She has mentored over a dozen poets in her community. Along with cultivating spaces for poets, Hope can also be found hosting various writing and performance workshops as an official teaching artist partnered with Nevada Arts Council. 

Hope’s most recent publication was her debut self-published anthology “Young, Gifted, & Black: A Poetic Anthology Vol.1, Vol.2, & Vol.3” featuring over 50+ African-American poets from all across the country. For more information and updates follow her on Instagram @ellehopew and TikTok @ellehopethepoet.