Elle Becker is an Arizona native who thrives during desert winters and turns to ash like a vampire the second the thermostat rises during summer. A writer of many subjects, she is mostly accidentally funny and hits her comedic sweet spot after about half a joint of her homegrown hybrid. She writes satire, poetry, essays, articles, and short fiction. As a woman with chronic illness, she knows that laughter is the best medicine, which is great because her actual medicine costs her a small fortune. Elle drinks more coffee than a beatnik at a poetry slam and has important life goals, like someday meeting her favorite authors and completing Fallout 4 in Very Easy mode. It’s been like five years, but that should show that she never gives up. She has the determination of a bear getting into a locked trash can and the attention span of a gnat with ADHD. She actually is a gnat with ADHD. She can beat you in a history challenge, especially about Ireland. She studied Irish politics and history, which has no real-world application besides bar trivia. Much of her free time is spent hanging out with The Chronic Haven, the online peer support community for chronic illness she co-founded.

Elle has turned pain into punchlines, her frustration into storytelling, and her anger into legally inadvisable Googling. She believes a well-timed joke is sometimes the best way to flip the Universe off. She’s unbeatable in Scrabble, Word Jumble, and “I Spy.” Elle has published in journals and platforms such as Five on the Fifth, Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight, The Mighty, Medium, and more. She has won the Tempe Writing Competition in Poetry. She also received a Highly Commended in the prestigious McLellan Poetry Competition—which is proof that occasionally, people take her seriously. She aspires to someday be a crazy dog lady. She currently has two dogs that she spoils. She writes words that make people laugh, cry, or, at the very least, question their life choices.