Elaine Terranova was named a Pew Fellow in the Arts for 2006.
Not To: New and Selected Poems was runner-up for the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award. She won the 1990 Walt Whitman Award for her first book,
The Cult of the Right Hand. She has received an NEA fellowship and two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships. Other books include
The Dog's Heart (Orchises Press, 2002) and
Damages (
Copper Canyon Press, 1996) and a translation of Euripides'
Iphigenia at Aulis (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998). Her work has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including
Blood to Remember: American Poets Write About the Holocaust. She teaches writing at the Community College of Philadelphia.
