Ella Baum is a writer and photographer residing in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from Vassar College in June, 2020 with a bachelor's degree and honors in English Literature. Her senior thesis was an auto-biographical sister-arts poetry book titled, "The Pillows of Our Palms", featuring verse and photographic images in playful communion. She has been an assistant teacher at the International Center of Photography, ICP at The Point and at the Penumbra Foundation. Ella's written work has been featured in Zingara Poetry Review, "Somebody Else’s Poetry", May 2019, and Aspire Design & Home magazine (Winter 2020 and Spring 2021 editions). She has curated and exhibited photographic work at the Beacon Artists Union, and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Ella is a native New Yorker, and dual citizen of the U.S. and Sweden.