Ellie Snyder

Montanan poet Ellie Snyder writes for a global nonprofit and will begin her MFA at NYU in the fall. Austin Poetry Review's March 2026 Poet of the Month and reader for Quarterly West, her Pushcart-nominated work can be found in Pinky, The Dewdrop, River Heron Review, Pile Press and elsewhere, and her fitchecks on Instagram @elliegsnyder.

“Elkhorn,” “Badlands,” and “Grand Canyon”

It looks near the peak like wind has rubbed alpine grass
from the clean-edged boulders like paint from the head
of a statue of a child. You take a photo of Hank and me
in which we are invisible against a mountain of ankle-
breaking gaps.