Ella Leynard is a teacher of English at the National College Iulia Hasdeu in Bucharest, Romania. She graduated from the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters. Her most recent volumes of poetry are The Eyesight of the Best Keeper (2025) Maskless (2024), The Words in Silence (2023), Explosion of Words (2022). Her novel Laur was published in 2024 and a book for children, From the Book of Tales, in 2025. Some of the literary journals which have published her poems, short stories and book reviews are: Black Moon magazine, Ballast Journal, (USA), Luceafarul de diminea?a, Neuma, Caligraf, Egophobia, Helion Online. Some of her poems and stories are in anthologies: Between Dusk and Dawn, Australian and Romanian Poets (2019), Poetry is Tightrope Walking on the Lines of God’s Palm, (2023), Dialogues, Romanian/ Australian Anthology (2026). She selected and translated poems from the work of the Romanian poet, G. Bacovia, Flowers of lead (2018). Watercolours in Words is her first poetry collection in English.