Elena Karina Byrne: Guest Editor for ISSUE-XXV
Elena Karina Byrne, visual artist, editor, author of Squander (Omnidawn 2016), MASQUE (Tupelo Press, 2008), and The Flammable Bird, (Zoo Press 2002), has been a freelance teacher, former 12 year Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America and Executive Director for the AVK Arts Foundation. She is currently Poetry Consultant and Moderator for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Literary Programs Director for the Ruskin Art Club and one of the final judges for the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards.
Her book reviews and poetry publications, among others, include the Pushcart Prize XXXIII, Best American Poetry, Poetry, Yale Review, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Slate, Painted Bride Quarterly, Ploughshares, Agni, The Dublin Review, OmniVerse, Diode, Verse, Black Renaissance Noire, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry and BOMB. Elena just completed a collection of essays entitled, VOYEUR HOUR: Meditations on Poetry, Art & Desire.
Her book reviews and poetry publications, among others, include the Pushcart Prize XXXIII, Best American Poetry, Poetry, Yale Review, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Slate, Painted Bride Quarterly, Ploughshares, Agni, The Dublin Review, OmniVerse, Diode, Verse, Black Renaissance Noire, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry and BOMB. Elena just completed a collection of essays entitled, VOYEUR HOUR: Meditations on Poetry, Art & Desire.
