Ela Fornalska is a poet and a language teacher. She has performed her work in festivals, on television, and radio. Ela has been published in various anthologies, audio compilations, literary magazines and journals. She has been a grand finalist in the ‘Sydney Road Writers Contest & Cup’, a finalist at the ‘Melbourne Spoken Word Prize’, and shortlisted in the teacher section of Red Room Poetry’s national competition ‘Poetry Object’. Ela was an international guest at the festival ‘Österreich Liest’ (Austria Reads). Her work has been translated into multiple languages, and she occasionally writes and performs bilingually. The Dance Inside is her first full-length collection.