Eloise Klein Healy | |
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Born | 1943 (age 80–81) El Paso, Texas |
Occupation | Poet, professor |
Nationality | American |
Literary movement | Feminist movement |
Notable awards | First Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, 2012, Grand Prize of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival |
Eloise Klein Healy (born 1943) [1] is an American poet. [2] [3] She has published five books of poetry and three chapbooks. Her collection of poems, Passing, was a finalist for the 2003 Lambda Literary Awards in Poetry and the Audre Lorde Award from The Publishing Triangle. [4] [5] Healy has also received the Grand Prize of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival and has received six Pushcart Prize nominations.
Healy was born in 1943 in El Paso, Texas and grew up in rural Iowa. She graduated from Immaculate Heart College. She was involved in the Woman's Building, the well known West Coast feminist cultural center, throughout the 1970s and 1980s in various capacities including as a teacher and a member of the Board of Directors. [6] Healy became the first Poet Laureate of Los Angeles in 2012. [1] [7] She was instrumental in directing the women's studies program at Cal State Northridge, started the MFA program in creative writing at Antioch University, Los Angeles where she is professor emeritus, and founded Arktoi Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press. [8]
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