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elena karina byrne

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ELENA KARINA BRYNE is the author of four books including If This Makes You Nervous (Omnidawn Publishing, 2021). She also has a completed a collection of “Interrupted Essays”: Voyeur Hour: Poetry, Art, Film, & Desire. Elena is a freelance lecturer, editor, Poetry Consultant & Moderator for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and the Literary Programs
Director for The Ruskin Art Club. A Pushcart Prize recipient, her publications include Best American Poetry, Poetry, The Paris Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, BOMB, Verse Daily, Poetry International, The Kyoto Journal, New
American Writing, and Narrative, among others.