Elaine Elliott was raised in Mexico, the child of Wycliffe Bible Translators. She and her husband have worked in Guatemala since 1975 alongside the Ixil Maya people who were violently repressed during the Guatemalan Civil conflict of the 1980s. After working at the University of San Diego, they are again working on Ixil educational projects, living in Antigua, Guatemala. She currently includes works of art with daily devotionals sent out on email.