Eléna Rivera

Eléna Rivera was born in Mexico City, and spent her formative years in Paris. She has also lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montréal and Providence, Rhode Island. She now resides in New York City.

Her book Scaffolding is forthcoming from the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Other books are: A Test of Labor (work in progress) Labor Poetic Labor! 2: into the archive (Essay Press, 2015), Atmosphered (Oystercatcher Press, 2014), Overture(Metambesen, 2014), On the Nature of Position and Tone (Fields Press, 2012), The Perforated Map (Shearsman Books, 2011), and Remembrance of Things Plastic (LRL e-editions, 2010). She won the 2010 Robert Fagles prize for her translation of Bernard Noël’s The Rest of the Voyage (Graywolf Press, 2011) and is a recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation.