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Harley Elliott was born in South Dakota but has spent most of his life in Kansas. Elliott is an artist and a poet. He's written eleven books of poems, including The Mercy of Distance (Hanging Loose Press, 2020) and Animals that Stand in Dreams (Hanging Loose Press, 1977), a children's book, The Tiger's Spots (Crossing Press, 1977), and two memoirs, Loading the Stone (Woodley Memorial Press, 2006) and Reptile Romance (Meadowlark Press, 2026). He earned his BA from Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina and his MA from New Mexico Highlands in Las Vegas. He taught art at Marymount College in Salina for many years, until it was closed, and then worked as the coordinator of education at the Salina Art Center. Elliott's work defies narrow classification. His poems reflect a strong connection to the land and open sky of Kansas, and he is very interested in the true history of people, but he is also the highly imaginative poet who created "JoJo the Whorehouse Monkey," the voice of the collection The Monkey of Mulberry Pass.
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