About This Event
Elena Karina Byrne is a screenwriter, essayist, reviewer, multi-media artist, and editor. She also works as a freelance lecturer and national arts programs curator. Author of five collections of poetry including If This Makes You Nervous (Omnidawn), No, Don’t (What Books Press), Squander (Omnidawn), MASQUE (Tupelo Press), and The Flammable Bird (Zoo Press/Tupelo Press), Elena is a Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry recipient. Her poems, reviews, essays, and interviews can be found in POETRY, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Poetry International, Poetry Daily, Ploughshares, BOMB, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, and elsewhere. Perry Janes is the author of the poetry collection FIND ME WHEN YOU’RE READY (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2024), winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for Poetry. A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, his poems and short stories have appeared in POETRY, Electric Literature, Poem-a-Day, Best New Poets, The Threepenny Review, Zyzzyva, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Subtropics, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Adroit Journal, The Missouri Review, and others. He earned his MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College, and his BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he was a 5-time recipient of the Hopwood Award.
