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.

Sara is a poet, journalist and translator 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.

Aidan is a poet and teacher from Greenville, South Carolina. They graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University. At Brown, they won numerous Literary Arts prizes and served as a Social Science and Humanities Presidential Scholar. They are the author of the chapbook Exit Pastoral (YesYes Books, 2019) and their work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Bennington Review, Best New Poets, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, Lambda Literary, Muzzle, Ninth Letter, Sixth Finch, The Rumpus, Teen Vogue, Tin House, and Washington Square Review, among others.

As a teen writer, they received 7 Scholastic Art & Writing National Gold Medals in Poetry and Fiction, as well as a Best in Grade Award for Poetry and a nomination for the National Student Poet designation. They were also a 2018 National YoungArts Foundation Winner with Distinction in Creative Nonfiction and Winner in Poetry. As a 2018 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Aidan performed their poetry at the Kennedy Center and received the inaugural Lin Arison Excellence in Writing Award. They’ve been recognized by the Adroit Journal’s Adroit Prizes and Djanikian Scholars opportunities, the Poetry Society of America, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Awards, Copper Nickel, Bennington Young Writers Awards, Princeton University’s Leonard Milberg Prize, and more.

Aidan has worked as an associate editor for Sibling Rivalry Press, as a poetry staff reader and poetry mentor for the Adroit Journal, and as a poetry reader for Muzzle Magazine. High school writers who have worked with Aidan have achieved recognition through the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the National YoungArts Foundation, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, and more. Aidan has taught for five consecutive summers at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities’ creative writing programs, and (when they aren’t working on their next manuscript!) they work as a Specialty Patient Innovation Analyst for CVS Health. 

Lisa 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. Her 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. She is the Founder and Co-Producer of Queer Poem-a-Day at the Deerfield Public Library.

Michelle is a fiction writer and playwright born and raised in Los Angeles. She is the author of a novel, Glass Shatters (She Writes Press, an imprint of the Stable Book Group). Her writing has been published in or honored by the Adroit Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, and Wigleaf, among others. In addition, she has been a PEN Center Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction and her plays have been developed and/or produced all across the country and world.

Michelle received her bachelor’s degree in Literary Arts and Writing for Performance at Brown University and her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) at the University of Alabama. Glass Shatters is Michelle’s first novel.

Mai holds a BA in English & Comparative Literature and MA in Arabic Literature from the American University in Cairo as well as an MSt in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. Her work has appeared in Anomaly, Flash Fiction Magazine, Oxford Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Narratively Memoir Prize for Return is a Thing of Amber and the Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Award for her collection, CAIRO: the undelivered letters. 

Erick is the author of Obiter Dicta (Punctum Books, 2021) and a PhD candidate at the University of Utah. His writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, the Harvard Review, Literary Matters, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Massachusetts Review, the Oxford Review of Books, and elsewhere. He received his MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Florida and lives in Salt Lake City.