Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of two books of poetry, Trauma Head and serpentine loop, and editor of the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living and V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A frequent collaborator with choreographers, musicians, and visual artists, she is currently collaborating with nature via a series of durational art installations that investigate the law of thermodynamics and cultural ideas regarding the passing of time. Elee directs Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, a program pairing authors with mentors, and co-hosts, with Dr. Bronwen Tate at UBC's Green College, The Whole Cloth reading series in which a poet reads an entire book of poems from cover to cover. Her interest in sound and listening has led to cross-disciplinary creative projects and will be the focus of her legacy project as Vancouver Poet Laureate. Her name is pronounced "Elly".