Meet Elena
Artist. Historian. Publishing Professional.
ELENA K. ABBOTT, PhD, is a creative spirit who wears many hats.
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Fine arts collage and mixed media artist based in Washington State
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Historian of slavery, emancipation, and the American anti-slavery movement
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Publishing professional & founder of INK BLOTTER
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Author of history and fantasy
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Elena believes in the power of creative energy, lifelong learning, and compelling stories.
It all started, as things do, when Elena was a kid growing up in the mountains of Colorado. When she wasn’t reading everything she could get her hands on, she was writing. She scribbled away on any piece of paper she could find, creating fantastical worlds and writing terrible poetry.
At some point she switched gears, splitting her time between writing epic fantasy and hardboiled(-ish) mysteries. And then she discovered history. Historical stories, in all their forms, became a passion that carried her through a doctorate in history from Georgetown University.
And through it all, she spent as much time as possible in the great outdoors, losing and re-finding herself high in the mountains, deep in the forests, and along every coast. She has always been intrigued by the dynamic and often contradictory ways she feels when immersed in nature: small, peaceful, ignited, mysterious, beautiful, insignificant, powerful, embodied, afraid, emboldened, alive. This deep connection eventually became the foundation of her artistic practice, as well as the inspiration for much of her writing.
Today, Elena is based in the Pacific Northwest. When she's not in her office, Elena can usually be found adventuring outside or snuggling up to her two feline fur-babies.
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