Elyse Fenton is the author of the poetry collections, Clamor (Cleveland University Press), winner of the 2010 University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize and Sweet Insurgent (Saturnalia, 2017), the former included in Home Front (with collections by Bryony Doran, Jehanne Dubrow and Isabel Palmer) published by Bloodaxe Books in November 2016. She is the recipient of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize, the Cleveland State University First Book Award, the Pablo Neruda Award and the Bob Bush Memorial Award, and was selected a New American Poet by the Poetry Society of America. Her poetry and prose has been published in The New York Times, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, The White Review, Pleiades and Prairie Schooner, and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and PRI’s The World. She has worked in the woods, on farms and in schools in Texas, New England, Mongolia, and the Pacific Northwest, and lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.
