Poetry. "APPLES OF THE EARTH is a marvelous first collection. In elegant, luminous language, Elenbogen evokes the places and people she loves and grieves over. Her leaps of imagination are startling: in one deft instant, she can connect commonplace objects to motions of the spirit and the heart. Her tone is everywhere sure and clear, the voice of a born poet"--Lynn Sharon Schwartz.

Author Hometown: Evanston, IL USA



About the author: Dina Elenbogen, an award-wining poet and prose writer, is the author of the poetry collection Apples of the Earth (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006.) She just completed a hybrid collection, Houses of Learning: Essays and Four Fictions and has written extensively about Ethiopian immigrants in Israel. Her poetry, essays, and stories have been widely published in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, Calyx, Bellevue Literary Review, Tikkun, The Chicago Reader and anthologies such as Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America (Penguin/Plume), Beyond Lament (Northwestern University Press), Lost on a Map of the World (Peter Lang), Where We Find Ourselves (SUNYPress) and others. She has received two fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and is recipient of the Miriam Lindberg Israel Poetry for Peace Prize. She has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writer's Workshop and teaches at the University of Chicago Writer's Studio.