Eloise Klein Healy

Eloise Klein Healy is an American poet.

Life
Healy was born in El Paso, Texas, and grew up in rural Iowa. She is a cofounder of ECO-ARTS (a venture combining ecotourism and the arts), and the founder, in 2006, of Arktoi Books (an imprint of Red Hen Press which specializes in the work of lesbian writers.

She has published five books of poetry and a chapbook.

Recognition
Her collection of poems, Passing, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry and the Audre Lorde Lesbian Poetry Prize from The Publishing Triangle. Healy has also received the Grand Prize of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival and has received six Pushcart Prize nominations.

Healy was involved in the Woman's Building, the well known Westcoast feminist cultural center, throughout the 1970s and 1980s in various capacities including teacher and Board of Directors.