Eleni Sikelianos was raised in California. She received an M.F.A. in Writing & Poetics from the Naropa Institute. She is the author of Earliest Worlds (Coffee House Press, 2001), The Book of Tendons (1997), and To Speak While Dreaming (1993). She is also the author of a number of chapbooks, including From Blue Guide (1999), The Lover's Numbers, and Poetics of the X (1995). She has received numerous honors and awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Writing. She currently works as poet-in-residence for Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City and teaches Literature and Thinking & Writing for Bard College's Clemente Program. Sikelianos co-runs the Wednesday Night Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project in St. Mark's Church. She lives in New York City.