Discipline: Poetry
Based In: New York, NY
Year at Millay: 1994
Fellowship: Rita Gold Fellowship
Awards/Honors: Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2020); Artist-in-Residence, Paris Residency for Poets, The Trélex Art Residencies, Paris, France (2019); Artist-in-Residence, Shoen Foundation, Paris, France/Nishinomiya, Japan (2016); Fellow, Translation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC (2010); Fellow, Rita Gold Fellowship, Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY (1994).
Website: https://www.elenarivera.net
Eléna Rivera is the author of several poetry collections, including Arrangements, with Peter Hughes (Aquifer Press, 2022), Epic Series (Shearsman Books, 2020), Scaffolding (Princeton University Press, 2017), and The Perforated Map (Shearsman Books, 2011). She received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation and was a recipient of poetry fellowships from MacDowell, Trélex Paris Poetry Residency and the Shoen Foundation.