Elena Johnson is the author of Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra (Gaspereau Press, 2015), a collection of poems written at a remote ecology research station in the Yukon. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies across Canada and internationally, and has been set to music and performed by choirs in Vancouver and Brooklyn. The French translation of her book, Notes de terrain pour la toundra alpine (tr. Luba Markovskaia), was published by Jardin de givre in 2021 and won the John Glassco Prize. A finalist for the CBC Literary Awards and the Alfred G. Bailey Poetry Prize, she works as an editor and writing mentor in Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish territory. She is one of the editors of Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House, 2021).  In 2023, she was a Writer in Residence at the Al Purdy A-frame in Ontario.