Elle Holtermann is a writer of creative nonfiction and an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at Colorado State University. Her work explores the intersections of girlhood, the male gaze, family, intimacy, memory, and the ways our relationships become part of how we understand ourselves and society as a whole. She holds a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, where she wrote an honors thesis, a collection of flash essays exploring the male gaze.