Elaine Terranova

Elaine Terranova (b. 1939 Philadelphia) is an American poet.

Life
She is the son of Nathan and Sadie Goldstein, She graduated from Temple University in 1961, and Goddard College, Master’s degree in 1977.

She married her first husband, Philip Terranova, in 1961.

In 1966, she was appointed the Margaret Banister writer-in-residence at Sweet Briar College. In 1973, she worked as manuscript editor for J.B. Lippincott & Co.. She taught at Temple University, until 1987, when she began teaching at the Community College of Philadelphia. She led workshops at the 1991 Rutgers University Writers Conference, and the 1992 Writers’ Center at the Chautauqua Institution.

“The Choice,” a selection from Damages (Copper Canyon Press, 1996), appeared throughout Philadelphia as a part of the Poetry Society’s Poetry in Motion (arts program). “The River Bathers,” from Damages, was featured on illustrated posters by the Public Poetry Project.

She lives in Philadelphia.

Awards

 * 1992 Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
 * 1990 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, chosen by Rita Dove
 * “The Stand-up Shtel” took first prize in the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Competition for poems on the Jewish experience.

Publicationss

 * chapbook