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Dina Elenbogen

Instructor. University of Chicago

Birth Year
b. 1960
Current City
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Birth City
United States
Genre(s)
Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction
Author’s Website
Photo credit: Photo Credit: Jennifer Franklin

Biography

Dina Elenbogen, a widely published and award winning poet and prose writer is author of the memoir, Drawn from Water (BKMk Press, University of Missouri), the poetry collection Apples of the Earth (Spuyten Duyvil, NY) and the forthcoming poetry collection, Shore (Glass Lyre Press, 2023.) Her work has appeared in anthologies including, Fury: Women’s Lived Experience During the Trump Era (Regal Books, 2020) City of the Big Shoulders (University of Iowa Press) Beyond Lament (Northwestern University press), Where We Find Ourselves (SUNYPress),  Rust Belt Chicago Anthology, and magazines and journals including Lit Hub, December magazine, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Bellevue Literary Review, Woven Tale Press, Tiferet, Tikkun, Paterson Literary Review,  New City Chicago and the Chicago Reader. She has received fellowships in poetry and prose from the Illinois arts Council and the Ragdale FoundationElenbogen has a poetry MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago Graham School where she received the Excellence in Teaching Award.

In addition, Dina consults individually with writers on creative projects.

Published Works

Poetry
Shore (Glass Lyre Press, 2023)
Apples of the Earth (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005)

Prose
Drawn from Water: An American Poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story (BKMK Press, 2015)

Links to Sample Works

Subject Matter

Antisemitism, Art & Ekphrasis, Childhood, Cultural Identity, Death, Diaspora, Eastern Europe, Environment & Climate Crisis, Family, Friendship, Grief & Elegy, History, Intergenerational Trauma, Israel/Palestine, Jewish Mysticism, Jewishness, Loss, Love, Marriage, Motherhood/Fertility, Nature, Parenting, Politics, Shoah, Genocide, Torah, Trauma, War, Yiddish Language & Yidishkayt, Visual Art, Feminism, Documentary Poetics.