Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers ’07

Biography

Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is the author of two poetry collections: The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons (Acre Books, 2020), named one of Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2020; and Chord Box (University of Arkansas Press, 2013), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Waxwing, Bennington Review, Shenandoah, FIELD, and numerous other journals. Also an essayist, Rogers’s creative nonfiction has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Travel Writing, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

Rogers has received the Kenyon Review Fellowship, grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Ohio Arts Council, an Oberlin Shansi Fellowship, Prairie Schooner’s Glenna Luschei Award, and a grant from the Astraea Foundation for Social Justice, among other honors.

She has held academic positions at Shanxi Agricultural University in China, Cornell University, Kenyon College, Tulane University, the Bard Early College New Orleans, Hendrix College, and American University; she has also taught in community settings. She is a volunteer for the Veterans’ Writing Project and a Consulting Editor at the Kenyon Review.