Elizabeth Arnold

Elizabeth Arnold has published five books of poems: Skeleton Coast (2017), Life (2014), Effacement (2010), Civilization (2006), and The Reef (1999). A scholar as well as poet, Arnold earned her PhD at the University of Chicago. Researching the poet Mina Loy for her dissertation, she discovered the poet's lost novel, Insel. Arnold edited the work, which was published by Black Sparrow Press in 1991. Arnold has received numerous awards for her work, including a Bunting Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Maryland and lives outside Washington, DC.