Biography

Eleanor Swanson’s most recent poetry collection is A Trembling in the Bones (Ghost Road Press, 2006). Her collection A Thousand Bonds: Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium (National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press) received the 2003 Stevens Prize and was a finalist in poetry for the 2004 Colorado Book Award.

Other awards include both an NEA and state of Colorado literature fellowships. Additionally, in 2002 she was finalist for the Missouri Review’s Larry Levis Editor’s Prize and for Nimrod International’s Pablo Neruda Award. She was recently twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Swanson is a professor in the English Department at Regis University in Denver where she teaches fiction and poetry workshops, as well as American literature.

Her website is www.eleanorswanson.com