Background
She grew up in Philadelphia, the daughter of Nathan and Sadie Goldstein.
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Elaine Terranova
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She remained in her home town gaining her education at Temple University where she graduated in 1961 with a bachelor"s degree in English. Twelve years later in 1973, she worked as a manuscript editor for J. B. Lippincott & Company While working there, she attended Vermont"s Goddard College culminating in earning her master"s degree in 1977.
Career
Her career shifted from editing to education and she began teaching English and creative writing at her Alma Mater Temple University until 1987, when she began teaching as a reading and writing specialist at the Community College of Philadelphia. Her poems have appeared in various publications including The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Ploughshares. Elaine has led workshops at the 1991 Rutgers University Writers Conference, and the 1992 Writers’ Center at the Chautauqua Institution.
In 1996, she was appointed the Margaret Banister writer-in-residence at Sweet Briar College.
In 2001, “The Choice,” a selection from Damages (Copper Canyon Press, 1996), appeared throughout Philadelphia as a part of the Poetry Society’s Poetry in Motion (arts program). “The River Bathers,” from Damages, was featured on illustrated posters by the Public Poetry Project.
On November 8, 2012, University of Pennsylvania"s Kelly Writers House inaugurated the Eva and Leo Sussman Poetry Program with poetry readings by featured guest writers and instructors, Elaine Terranova, Nathalie Anderson, and Joan Hutton Landis. Here, Elaine reads from her 2012 book, She lives in Philadelphia.
Achievements
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1990 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, chosen by Rita Dove 1992 Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers" Conference 1993 “The Stand-up Shtel” took first prize in the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Competition for poems on the Jewish experience. 2006 Pew Fellowships in the Arts 2012 Pushcart Prize.
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Pushcart Prize; Walt Whitman Award 1990 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, chosen by Rita Dove 1992 Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 1993 “The Stand-up Shtel” took first prize in the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Competition for poems on the Jewish experience. 2006 Pew Fellowships in the Arts 2012 Pushcart Prize Named after poet Walt Whitman, the award is based on a competition of book-length poetry manuscripts by American poets who have not yet published a book.; The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.Pushcart Prize; Walt Whitman Award 1990 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, chosen by Rita Dove 1992 Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 1993 “The Stand-up Shtel” took first prize in the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Competition for poems on the Jewish experience. 2006 Pew Fellowships in the Arts 2012 Pushcart Prize Named after poet Walt Whitman, the award is based on a competition of book-length poetry manuscripts by American poets who have not yet published a book.; The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.