Elisa Gonzalez is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Grand Tour (FSG, US; Penguin, UK), was named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Whiting Award, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Levis Reading Prize, and was a finalist for the 2025 Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. A novel and a nonfiction book are also forthcoming.

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