Elena Johnson has worked intermittently as a park naturalist, field ecology researcher, editor and translator. Her poems have appeared in four anthologies and in many periodicals and online reviews, including Arc, CV2, The Fiddlehead, Lemon Hound and PRISM international. She has been a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards (2010) and twice shortlisted for the Alfred G. Bailey Prize. Born in New Brunswick, she presently resides in Vancouver.