Elisa Lorraine Harkins is a Muscogee Creek and Cherokee artist and composer originally hailing from Miami, Oklahoma. Harkins received her BA from Columbia College Chicago and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She has since continued her education at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work is concerned with translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. Harkins uses the Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee languages, electronic music, sculpture, and the body as her tools.