Elaina Erola is a watercolorist, attorney, member of the Blackfeet Tribe, and currently a candidate for the L.L.M. program at Lewis & Clark College, for Environmental Law. She was a recipient of the Anne Lacascio Memorial Scholarship for the 2020 Mendocino Coast Writers Conference and a finalist in the 2021 San Francisco Writers Conference Contest. She received the 2023 Redwood Award in Creative Non-Fiction from Toyon Literary Magazine at Cal Poly Humboldt and won the 2024 Maria Spiridonova Remembered Writing Contest. Her work has appeared in Alternating Press, The Bangalore Review, Yellow Medicine Review, the Society for Cultural Anthropology, and Texas Tech Law Review. PEN America selected her for their first Emerging Voices Workshop in June 2024.