Biography
Eleanor Stanford has been taught by Lorrie Moore, Charles Wright and Rita Dove and holds an MA in English from the University of Wisconsin. She is now Henry Hoyns Fellow in creative writing, University of Virginia.
She has had poems published in Georgia Review, Triquarterly, Poetry, Callaloo, Indiana Review and Folio, among others, and won 1st place in the 2003 Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Competition, and 2nd place in the Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition, 1998. Recently her poetry manuscript THE BOOK OF SLEEP was runner up for the Dorset Prize, and a finalist for Tupelo Press' first book contest, and will be published by Carnegie Mellon Press in 2008.
She speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Cape Verdean Creole.
She's currently working on HISTORIA, HISTORIA, a beguiling poetic memoir of two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Cape Verde Islands - a country of Portuguese colonial mansions and cinderblock slums, a nation built on a history of slave trade and drought. Manuscript available. 55,000 words.
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