Elaina Erola is a watercolorist, attorney, and member of the Blackfeet Tribe, currently a candidate for the L.L.M. program in Environmental Law at Lewis & Clark. She has received the 2023 Redwood Award in Creative Non-Fiction from Toyon Literary Magazine at Cal Poly Humboldt, the 2024 Maria Spiridonova Remembered Writing Contest, and was shortlisted for the 2025 Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in Alternating Press, The Bangalore Review, Yellow Medicine Review, the Society for Cultural Anthropology, Texas Tech Law Review, and is forthcoming in the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation. In 2024, she was selected for PEN America’s Emerging Voices Workshop. In 2025, she joined the Tin House Winter Workshop.
