Elton Glaser

A longtime resident of Ohio, poet Elton Glaser was born and raised in Louisiana and earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Glaser’s collections of poetry include The Law of Falling Bodies (2013), winner of the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize; Translations from the Flesh (2013); Here and Hereafter (2005), which received the Arkansas Poetry Award; Pelican Tracks (2003); Winter Amnesties (2000); Color Photographs of the Ruins (1992); Tropical Depressions (1988), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; and Relics (1984).

Glaser’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Ohio Arts Council. In 1996 he received the Ohioana Poetry Award. He has taught at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio, and served as editor of the Akron Series in Poetry at the University of Akron Press.