Eleanor Rand Wilner (born 1937) is an Americanpoet andeditor.

Wilner obtained her bachelor's fromGoucher College and her Ph.D. fromJohns Hopkins University.^[1] Her graduate dissertation concerned the topic of imagination and was later published asGathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society (1975).^[2]

She was editor ofThe American Poetry Review and she is Advisory Editor ofCalyx.^[3]She has taught at theUniversity of Chicago,Northwestern University, andSmith College. She is on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers atWarren Wilson College,^[4] and lives inPhiladelphia.

In 2019, she won theRobert 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.

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

• Shekhinah (poems), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1984.ISBN 978-0-226-90025-4
• Sarah's Choice (poems). University of Chicago Press. 1989.ISBN 978-0-226-90028-5.
• Otherwise (poems). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 1993.ISBN 978-0-226-90029-2.
• Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press. 1998.ISBN 978-1-55659-082-5.
• The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon Press, 2004)^[5]ISBN 978-1-55659-203-4
• Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010)ISBN 978-0-226-90032-2

• Jorie Graham; David Lehman, eds. (1990).Best American Poetry. Charles Scribner's Sons.ISBN 978-0-684-19187-4.
• Margaret Ferguson; Mary Jo Salter; Jon Stallworthy, eds. (August 1996).The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company.ISBN 978-0-393-96820-0.
• Hilda Raz, ed. (2001). "Facing Into It".Best of Prairie schooner: fiction and poetry. University of Nebraska Press. p. 305.ISBN 978-0-8032-8972-7.Eleanor Wilner.
• Bill Henderson, ed. (1996).The 1997 Pushcart prize XXI: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press.ISBN 978-0-916366-96-4.
• Bill Henderson, ed. (2003).The Pushcart Prize Xxviii 2004: Best of the Small Presses. Pushcart Press.ISBN 978-1-888889-37-6.
• Melissa Tuckey, ed. (2018).Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press.ISBN 978-0820353159.

• David R. Slavitt; Smith Palmer Bovie, eds. (1998). "Medea".Euripides: Medea. Hecuba. Andromache. The Bacchae. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 1.ISBN 978-0-8122-1626-4.Eleanor Wilner.

• "Poetry and the Pentagon: Unholy Alliance?",Poetry Foundation, 3.2.06
• Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1975.

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

• "An E-view with Eleanor Wilner",The Drunken Boat, Rebecca Seiferle, 2000
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• 1937 births
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• American women poets
• Goucher College alumni
• Johns Hopkins University alumni
• MacArthur Fellows
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellows
• National Heritage Fellowship winners
• Northwestern University faculty
• Smith College faculty
• University of Chicago faculty
• Warren Wilson College faculty
• Poets from Ohio
• American women academics
• 21st-century American women writers
• 21st-century American poets
• 20th-century American women writers
• 20th-century American poets

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