American poet and editor (born 1937-2021)
Eleanor Rand Wilner (born 1937) is an American poet and editor.
Life
Wilner obtained her bachelor's from Goucher College and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.[1] Her graduate dissertation concerned the topic of imagination and was later published as Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society (1975).[2]
She was editor of The American Poetry Review and she is Advisory Editor of Calyx.[3]
She has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Smith College.
She is on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College,[4] and lives in Philadelphia.
In 2019, she won the Robert Frost Medal, the Poetry Society of America's award for a "distinguished lifetime service to American poetry."
She has been active in civil rights and peace movements.
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