Elinor Hitt is a PhD student in English literature at Harvard University. Before graduate school, Elinor was a professional dancer with the Pennsylvania Ballet and the Suzanne Farrell Ballet. During her performance career, Elinor began studying at Columbia University, completing her undergraduate degree in 2019. Elinor then worked as an editorial intern at The Paris Review. Now, she reviews submissions in fiction and poetry for their print edition and contributes her own writing to their online publication, The Paris Review Daily. This is her second year at Harvard and with Poetry in America.