Artists, Poets and friends
Eleanor Wilner
Eleanor Wilner has published six books of poetry, most recently The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (2004) and Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems (1998) from Copper Canyon Press; Otherwise (1993) and Sarah's Choice (1989) from The University of Chicago Press; her translation of Euripides' Medea is in Euripides I, The Penn Greek Series, The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998; she has a book on visionary imagination, Gathering the Winds , Johns Hopkins University Press. Her work is widely anthologized, including in Best Poems of 1990 and The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Her awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Juniper Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, has taught at many colleges and universities, most recently as visiting writer at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Smith College. She is on the graduate faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC, and lives in Philadelphia.
