Elaine Terranova
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Elaine Terranova is the author of eight collections, including most recently Rinse (Grid Books, 2024), and two chapbooks. Her work has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies. Her translation of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis is part of the Penn Greek Drama Series. She has received the Walt Whitman Award, an NEA, a Pew Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and in 2024, the Maurice English Poetry Award.
“Elaine Terranova unreels the irresistible thread of her telling: she guides us through the complicated waters of our lives with compassion and an unerring eye.””
“Terranova’s best moments are small ones, epiphanies in which ... an apparently trivial event glows with meaning.””