Eleanor Lerman
is the author of numerous award-winning collections of poetry, short stories, and novels. She is a National Book Award finalist, a recipient of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the winner of the Campbell Award for 2016's best book of science fiction, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts for poetry and the New York Foundation for the Arts for fiction. Her most recent novel, Watkins Glen (Mayapple Press), was published in June 2021.