elin o'Hara slavick is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, professor, curator, critic and activist.
She began teaching in the department of art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994, where she held the titles of distinguished term professor, associate chair and director of graduate studies.
[1] Slavick received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and a MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
[5] In 2018, she has published a chapbook of Surrealist poems entitled Cameramouth (SurVision Books, Ireland.)
Slavick was raised by a German mother and a Catholic father, and began taking photographs as a young child.