Senior Editor, Wording & Tradition

Elena Rivera

Joined 2025-06

Elena Rivera is a published poet and former academic whose research focus is the history of memorial inscription. She joined Memorial Plaque Ideas after a decade teaching comparative literature, and writes the wording, quotes, and tradition pages — the literary register. Her work is careful about source attribution and prefers to cite published epitaph collections over folk wisdom. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.