Born in Regina, moving to Vancouver as a young child, Elaine Woo is a poet, librettist, comics creator, artist, non-fiction writer, and video-maker. She studied creative writing and psychology at the University of British Columbia. Her works have been published internationally, in Canada, the US, the UK, France, and Hong Kong. Elaine's first full length poetry collection was Cycling with the Dragon published by Nightwood Editions in 2014.