Eleni Sikelianos is the author of two hybrid memoirs (The Book of Jon, City Lights, and You Animal Machine, Coffee House) and eight books of poetry, most recently Make Yourself Happy (Coffee House, 2017).  She has been the happy recipient of various awards for her poetry, nonfiction, and translations, including two National Endowment for the Arts awards, the National Poetry Series prize, a Fulbright, a NYFA and a NYSCA.  Her work has been translated into various languages by others, and she has translated various others into English.  Sikelianos has taught poetry in public schools, homeless shelters, and prisons, and is on guest faculty for the Naropa Summer Writing Program, for L’Ecole de Littérature in France and Morocco; she is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.

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Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts

Employment

• Professor at University of Denver (2003 - 2017)
• Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University (September 2017 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Writing & Poetics from Naropa (May 1991)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry