Elisa Karbin is a poet, editor, educator, and author of the poetry chapbook Snare. She holds a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she was both a James A. Sappenfield and Tinsley Helton Dissertation fellow. Currently, she serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University.

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Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Notre Dame Review, The Journal, Indiana Review, The Collagist, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and other venues while her dissertation manuscript, The Auspices, has been a finalist for several nationwide contests, including Autumn House Press' Rising Writers Contest in 2017, 2018, and 2019, the 2019 BOAAT Book Prize, and Milkweed Edition's 2019 Ballard Spahr Prize.​

She has previously served in several editorial positions, including web editor and fiction editor at cream city review from 2011 to 2016 and is currently a contributing poetry editor and contest reader for Great Lakes Review and the New American Poetry Prize.