Biography
Elline Lipkin is a poet, nonfiction writer, and academic. She received a BA from Wesleyan University, an MFA from Columbia University and holds a PhD in Creative Writing. Currently a Research Scholar with UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women, she has also affiliated with the Beatrice Bain Research Group on Gender at UC Berkeley. She has taught English, Writing, and Gender Studies at UC Berkeley, Scripps College, and Chapman University, and currently teaches private workshops. Her first book, The Errant Thread, was chosen by Eavan Boland for the Kore Press First Book Award. Her second book, Girls’ Studies, is part of the Seal Studies series. She has been in residence at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, and was a California Resident at Yefe Nof. Her poems and critical essays have been published widely and she is on the selection committee for the Kate & Kingsley Tufts Book Awards.