Elline Lipkin to teach poetry workshops for WWLA

Posted: May 18th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized |

I’m excited to announce that poet Elline Lipkin has joined the teaching staff at Writing Workshops Los Angeles.  Elline will be teaching a poetry workshop this summer (to be announced soon…!)  Check out her impressive bio below:

Elline Lipkin is a scholar and poet who has worked as an editor for a variety of newspapers, magazines, and journals. Her collection of poetry, The Errant Thread, was chosen by Eavan Boland to receive the Kore Press First Book Award and was published in 2006.  Her second book, Girls’ Studies, a work of nonfiction, was published by Seal Press in 2009.  She holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature.  Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Salon.com and other contemporary sources, and she is widely published as a poet.  A former resident at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Contemporary Arts, and Dorland, Lipkin has taught creative writing to students of all ages, and she’s been a speaker at the Napa Valley Writers Conference and the Writer-in-Residence at the Paper & Book Intensive.

Welcome, Elline!



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