Former Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America, final judge for the PEN’s Best of the West award, the Kate & Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards, and the international Laurel Prize, Elena Karina Byrne is a freelance screenwriter, editor, lecturer, Programming Consultant & Poetry Stage Manager for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and Literary Programs Director for the Ruskin Art Club. Her five poetry collections include If This Makes You Nervous (Omnidawn Publishing, 2021). Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize recipient, Elena’s poems, reviews, essays, and interviews can be found in POETRY, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, APR, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Plume Anthologies, Los Angeles Review of Books, Reel Verse: Poems About the Movies, The Eloquent Poem: 128 Contemporary Poems and Their Making, BOMB, and elsewhere.
