Elena Rivera

Eléna Rivera was born in Mexico City and spent her childhood in Paris. She is the author of Suggestions at Every Turn (Seeing Eye Books, 2005; available from Guy Bennet), Unknowne Land (Kelsey St. Press, 2000), Wale; or, the Corse (Leave Books, 1995; available as a pdf file at Duration Press), and a recent pamphlet entitled Disturbances in the Ocean of Air (Phylum Press, 2005). She won first prize in the 1998 Stand Magazine International Poetry Competition, the 1999 Frances Jaffer Book Award, and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing 1995. She currently lives in New York City.