Eleni Sikelianos

Eleni Sikelianos is the author of two hybrid memoir/family histories (The Book of Jon, City Lights; You Animal Machine, Coffee House) and eight books of poetry, most recently What I Knew (Nightboat, 2019). Sikelianos is the recipient of many awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and the National Poetry Series. She was Bobbie Louise Hawkins’ student in the late 80s and early 90s, and her colleague at Naropa beginning in the early 2000s. She currently teaches at Brown University.