Elena Karina Byrne is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Squander (Omnidawn 2016). She has just completed a book of essays: "Voyeur Hour: Meditations on Poetry, Art & Desire." She is a freelance professor, editor, Poetry Consultant / Moderator for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and Literary Programs Director for The Ruskin Art Club.Her work has been published in the Pushcart Prize XXXIII, Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, and is forthcoming in POETRY, Massachusetts Review, Poetry International, Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, and Persea Books': The Eloquent Poem, among others.
