Elise Love-McCorkle (b.1994) grew up in Texas and studied Advertising at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a co-founder and co-director of Centro, an upcoming cultural association in Lisbon, Portugal, that intends to support artistic, literary, and theoretical development. Her visual work has been exhibited in Lisbon, London, and Mexico City and published in SAND Journal, and her written work has been published in Poet Lore.