Truckee Literary Crawl

Elisa Carlsen was born and raised in the high desert of Northern Nevada. A contemplative poet and artist, her writing has appeared in Lunch Ticket, Scapegoat Review, Carte Blanche, Anti-Heroin Chic, and elsewhere. Elisa’s poetry has won awards from the Writers Guild of Astoria and the Oregon Poetry Association and nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. Elisa is a Poetry Editor at New American Press and author of Cormorant (Unsolicited Press 2023). Her poetry film, The Basin, was selected for the 2025 Nature & Culture International Poetry Film Festival in Denmark.