Elizabeth Kate Switaj graduated from the now-defunct New College of California Poetics MFA program in 2004. She has two books of poetry forthcoming: How to Drink a Floral Moon from Blue Lion Books and Magdalene & the Mermaids from Paper Kite Press. Her chapbook, The Broken Sanctuary, is available from Ypolita Press. Gold Wake Press has recently published her mini-echap, Shanghai (has more capital). She edits CRIT Journal  and is assistant editor of Inertia Magazine. Her professional experience includes teaching in Japan and China as well as writing copy for a kimono import company in Brooklyn.

She used to blog for Fringe but quit after being told that she needed to consider the importance of promoting writers Fringe had published when posting negative reviews.