Hillary Brenhouse is a Montreal-based writer and the editor and publisher of
Elastic, the print magazine of psychedelic art and literature, which debuted in March 2025 with support from Harvard and UC Berkeley. She was previously the editor-in-chief of
Guernica magazine and the editorial director of Bold Type Books. Much of her career in books and magazines has been focused on promoting work that challenges power and inequity via extraordinary uses of language and narrative form. Her own writing, on reproductive health and broken capitalism, has appeared in
The New Yorker online,
The New York Times Magazine,
TIME, and the
Los Angeles Review of Books, among others.