Elena Gomez is the author of poetry collections Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt and Body of Work, and several chapbooks and pamphlets. She lives on unceded Wurundjeri country, where she is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne, researching processes of capital and ecology in contemporary poetic forms.

Elena will be exhibiting in the group show ‘River is/as’ curated by 16 Collective in collaboration with FieldARTS, which is part of Glasgow International Festival 2026.

During the FieldARTS residency, she traced movement and energy in the temporal and spatial relations of colonial trade and maritime capital, with a focus on the sugar trade in Scotland and the Caribbean.