Eleanor Wilner

Eleanor Rand Wilner (born 1937) is an American poet and editor.

Life Wilner obtained her bachelor's from Goucher College and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Her graduate dissertation concerned the topic of imagination and was later published as Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society (1975).

She was editor of The American Poetry Review and she is Advisory Editor of Calyx. She has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Smith College. She is on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and lives in Philadelphia.

In 2019, she won the Robert Frost Medal, the Poetry Society of America's award for a "distinguished lifetime service to American poetry."

She has been active in civil rights and peace movements.

Awards Robert Frost Medal (2019) MacArthur Fellowship (1991) National Endowment for the Arts fellowship Juniper Prize Pushcart Prizes (awarded twice)

Works Shekhinah (poems), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1984.

The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon Press, 2004) Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010)

Anthologies

Translations

Non-fiction "Poetry and the Pentagon: Unholy Alliance?", Poetry Foundation, 3.1.06 Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1975.

Awards

Robert Frost Medal (2019) MacArthur Fellowship (1991) National Endowment for the Arts fellowship Juniper Prize Pushcart Prizes (awarded twice)