Elena Britos
Instructor BWOC
About Elena
Elena is a writer and editor from coastal Maine. She became a Grubbie in 2015 while working in book publishing in Boston. Elena holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt University, where she was a Teaching Fellow. In addition to teaching at GrubStreet and Vanderbilt, she has both worked and volunteered with community writing programs in Nashville, TN (The Porch Writers Collective & Slant) and Portland, ME (The Telling Room). Elena has been awarded scholarships and grants from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. She is Assistant Fiction Editor at Four Way Review. You can find her writing in Bat City Review, BookPage, Nashville Review, and elsewhere.