Eleanor Wilner

Eleanor Rand Wilner (born 1937 Ohio) is an American poet, and editor.

Life
She graduated from Goucher College, and from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D.

She was editor of The American Poetry Review, and she is Advisory Editor of Calyx. She has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Smith College. She is on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and lives in Philadelphia.

She has been active in civil rights and peace movements.

Awards

 * 1991 MacArthur Fellowship
 * National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
 * Juniper Prize
 * two Pushcart Prizes.

Publicationss

 * Maya (poems), University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 1979.
 * Shekhinah (poems), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1984. ISBN 9780226900254
 * The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon Press, 2004) ISBN 9781556592034
 * Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010) ISBN 9780226900322
 * The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon Press, 2004) ISBN 9781556592034
 * Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010) ISBN 9780226900322
 * The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon Press, 2004) ISBN 9781556592034
 * Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010) ISBN 9780226900322
 * Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010) ISBN 9780226900322

Non-fiction

 * Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1975.