Elbert Tavon Briggs was born 1952 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, raised in Omaha, Nebraska. Elbert has published poems in the Seeds Literary & Visual Arts Journal of Northeastern Illinois University; and resides in Chicago, Illinois. Currently workshopping with Poets & Patrons and the Randolph Street Brown Bag Poets. Elbert graduated from Arizona State University and served two years in AmeriCorps fighting the war on poverty in the Lower Delta.