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.

Rinse
$18.00
Perdido
$16.00
Dollhouse
$15.00
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.”
— Rita Dove
Terranova’s best moments are small ones, epiphanies in which ... an apparently trivial event glows with meaning.”
— Sandra Gilbert