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Peter founded Ellipsis in 2019. His poetry has received a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in such venues as AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Pleiades, and Tin House, among many others. Peter graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with his B.A. in English and Consumer Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017 and obtained his M.F.A in Creative Writing from New York University as a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. Numerous students of his have been recognized through the National YoungArts Foundation, the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the National Student Poets Program, the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Awards, Princeton University, the Davidson Fellows Program, the U.S. Presidential Scholar Program, TASP, the Coke Scholars Program, the Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) Program, the GE-Reagan Foundation Scholarship Program, and the Bryan Cameron Scholars Program. They’ve been featured at the White House, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the New York City Poetry Festival, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and by BBC News, the Boston Globe, Disney Channel, Teen Vogue, and the Wall Street Journal. In addition to his role as founder and CEO of Ellipsis, Peter is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal.

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Michael is a songwriter and editor from Los Angeles, California. He has been commissioned to create musical works for Starbucks, Netflix, Pulse Publishing, and others. After an accelerated five semester course of study, he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. When he’s not editing memoirs for independently published writers, he’s working one-on-one with high school seniors to refine their college application strategies and essays.

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Sara is a poet, journalist, translator, and college admissions professional based in Cairo. She holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University, and an MFA in poetry from New York University. Elkamel's poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, The Yale Review, and Gulf Coast, among others. She was named a 2020 Gregory Djanikian Scholar by The Adroit Journal, the winner of Redivider's 2021 Blurred Genre Contest, Tinderbox's 2022 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, and Michigan Quarterly Review's 2022 Goldstein Poetry Prize. Elkamel’s debut chapbook, “Field of No Justice,” was published by the African Poetry Book Fund & Akashic Books in 2021.

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Lisa is a poet and college admissions professional. She is the author of Afterfeast, which was selected by Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the Dorset Prize in Poetry. She holds degrees from Boston University and Harvard University, and has a special interest in mentoring students as they mold their personal stories throughout the college process. Her creative work has appeared in Lambda Literary, The Common, and Kenyon Review, and has been honored with the AWP Kurt Brown Prize. She is Poetry Editor of The Adroit Journal and a 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Best-in-Grade Educator, and she is the Founder and Co-Producer of Queer Poem-a-Day at the Deerfield Public Library.