Eleanor Lerman is a writer who lives in New York. Her first book of poetry, Armed Love, published when she was twenty-one, was a National Book Award finalist. She has since publish...vizualizați mai multeEleanor Lerman is a writer who lives in New York. Her first book of poetry, Armed Love, published when she was twenty-one, was a National Book Award finalist. She has since published several other award-winning collections of poetry - Come the Sweet By and By; The Mystery of Meteors; Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds; and The Sensual World Re-Emerges, along with The Blonde on the Train, a collection of short stories.
Eleanor was awrded the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and The Nation magazine, and received a 2007 Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2011 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her first novel, Janet Planet, based on the life of Carlos Castaneda, was published in 2011. Her latest collection of poetry, Strange Life, was published in 2014.vizualizați mai puține