Poet & Translator
Eléna Rivera’s new book of poems is Arrangements a collaboration with poet Peter Hughes just out from Aquifer Books. Her book of poems, Epic Series was published by Shearsman Books. Her third full-length collection of poetry Scaffolding (2017) was published by Princeton University Press in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation and was a recent recipient of fellowships from MacDowell (2020), Trelex Paris Poetry Residency (2019) and the SHOEN Foundation (2016).