Eleanor Swanson

Eleanor Swanson is an award-winning poet and fiction writer, whose work has appeared widely, in publications such as The Missouri Review, Black Warrior Review, High Plains Literary Review, The Denver Quarterly, and The Southern Review. Awards include the A. E. Coppard Prize for Fiction, a Fiction Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship in Literature (fiction), and first place in the Plum Review Fiction Competition. Her 2003 poetry collection, A Thousand Bonds: Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium, won the Ruth Stevens Manuscript Competition (NFPS Press) and was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her second poetry collection, Trembling in the Bones, was published in late 2006 by Ghost Road Press. Her first novel, Before the Reef, was recently published by Plain View Press. She regularly reads and offers workshops in the in the Denver metropolitan area. A native of Miami, Florida, she now lives in Denver and teaches American literature and fiction and poetry workshops at Regis University, where she is a member of the English Department faculty.