Eléna Rivera

Eléna Rivera was born in Mexico City and spent her childhood in Paris. She is the author of Mistakes, Accidents and the Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006), Suggestions at Every Turn (Seeing Eye Books, 2005), Unknowne Land (Kelsey St. Press, 2000), Wale; or, the Corse (Leave Books, 1995), and a pamphlet entitled Disturbances in the Ocean of Air (Phylum Press, 2005). Her translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald's Secret of Breath is just out from Burning Deck Press.

She is a recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for her translation of poems by Bernard Noël. She was also recently awarded a residency at the Fundacíon Valparaíso in southern Spain (2009), received a MacDowell Residency fellowship March-April 2005, won first prize in the 1998 Stand Magazine International Poetry Competition, and the 1999 Frances Jaffer Book Award. She was awarded the 2007 Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico.