Okla Elliott held a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Illinois and an MFA in creative writing from Ohio State University. His nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and translations have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Cincinnati Review, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, The Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, A Public Space, and Subtropics, among others. He is the author of From the Crooked Timber (short fiction), The Cartographer’s Ink (poetry), The Doors You Mark Are Your Own (a novel coauthored with Raul Clement) and a book of translation, Blackbirds in September: Selected Shorter Poems of Jürgen Becker. He died in March 2017.
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