Elena Karina Byrne

Elena Karina Byrne
NationalityAmerican
Genrepoetry

Elena Karina Byrne is a poet, visual artist, teacher and editor. Her poem "Irregular Masks" was featured in The Best American Poetry 2005 and her poem "Berryman's Concordance Against This Silence" received a Pushcart Prize in 2008 for which she has been nominated eleven times.

She was a regional director of the Poetry Society of America for twelve years.[1] Byrne has curated poetry readings at the Ruskin Art Club in Los Angeles, and at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review.[2][3]

She is the daughter of American artist Herbert Jepson.

  1. ^ "About.com:Poetry". Archived from the original on 2010-12-06. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  2. ^ Byrne, Elena Karina (2003). "Two Poems". Vol. Winter 2003, no. 168. ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  3. ^ Byrne, Elena Karina (2000). "Sanctuary of Hunger". Vol. Winter 2000, no. 157. ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved 2019-01-14.