Elías Lilienfeld Quevedo is a Bolivian writer and journalist pursuing an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing at the University of Iowa, where he is a Graduate Teaching Assistant and was previously an Iowa Arts Fellow. He holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Houston and is a two-time recipient of the Houston Association of Hispanic Media Professionals Scholarship. He is the author of the poetry collection Poemas de Amor y Sal (Editorial La Glorieta, 2024), and his poetry and journalism have appeared in publications in the United States and Latin America.