Elena Cabrera Profile

I am currently a master's candidate at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts where I am pursing an MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in fiction. I enjoy writing short stories and I am always working on a novel. I have been writing creatively since I was a child, inspired by writers such as Roald Dahl and Laura Ingalls Wilder. 

I became more serious about my writing as an undergraduate student at Fairfield University. I majored in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and spent all four years taking creative writing workshops and courses on publishing. For three years, I worked as the Managing Editor for the university's literary journal, Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose. As Managing Editor I read hundreds of short stories, poems, and non fiction essays and selected the best for publication in Dogwood. In my third year at Fairfield University, my short story "How Lucky We Have it" was published in the Spring 2013 edition of The Collegiate Scholar, a literary journal created by The National Society of Collegiate Scholars. I also worked as an assistant to my English professor, author Michael C. White on his forthcoming novel. Following my time at Fairfield University, I worked as an editorial intern at Sourcebooks, Inc. where I spent my days reading and editing romance novels and women's fiction. 

At Emerson College, I work as a Teacher's Assistant for undergraduate literature classes. I am currently enrolled in an advanced fiction workshop and two literature courses. One of the most important things that I have learned as a writer is the importance of showing up for your work. Sitting down to write is half the battle and it is the hardest part of the battle. Sit down and write. Don't worry about what comes out. Writing a story is like digging for fossils. You have to dig to uncover the entire fossil and you have to keep writing to find the story. It's there, trust me, and you will find it.