Elena Johnson is the author of Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra (Gaspereau, 2015), a collection of poems set at a remote ecology research station in the Yukon. Her poems have been translated into French, set to music, and sung by choirs. She was a co-editor of Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House, 2021). She lives in Vancouver, on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people, where she works as an editor and writing mentor.