ELEANOR WILNER

Eleanor Wilner was born in Ohio in 1937 and holds an interdepartmental Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She has published six collections of poems, most recently The Girl with Bees in Her Hair, Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems, and Otherwise. Her work has appeared in over thirty anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1990 and The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Fourth Edition). Wilner has been the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Juniper Prize, and two Pushcart Prizes.

She is currently on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and lives in Philadelphia.