Authors > Elyssa East

Elyssa East received her B.A. in art history from Reed College (1995) and her M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts (2005), where she was the recipient of three prestigious fellowships: the Susan G. Hertog Research Assistantship, a Departmental Research Assistantship, and a Writing Division Merit Fellowship. Her Master’s thesis—a draft of this manuscript—won a Faculty Selects award. East has received a variety of other awards in support of this book: a Ragdale Foundation Writing Fellowship, a Rose and Sigmund Stieglitz Travel Grant towards research in the Charles Olson Archive at the University of Connecticut, a... Read full bio