Ellie Stimpson is the John DeWitt Gregory Writer-in-Residence at the Bronx Academy of Letters and the director of WriteNYC, a youth writing education program supported by Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She holds an MFA in poetry from New York University and co-hosts the DGN Reading Series in Brooklyn. She also serves as a mentor for Girls Write Now and on the Youth Education Advisory Committee at Poets House. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2026, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boulevard Magazine, The Greensboro Review, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere.