Eleni Sikelianos

Eleni Sikelianos was raised in California and received her MFA in Poetry from the Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) in Boulder, Colorado, where she currently teaches. She has also been a guest poet at the University of Denver since 2001. She is the author of several books and chapbooks, including The Monster Lives of Boys and Girls (Green Integer 2003), Earliest Worlds (Coffee House 2001), The Book of Tendons (Post-Apollo Press 1997), and To Speak While Dreaming (Selva Editions 1993). Two more books, The California Poem (Coffee House Press) and The Book of Jon (City Lights) are due out in 2004.