Elisa Gonzalez

Elisa Gonzalez works for the Philip Levine literary estate and the New Yorker. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Harvard Review, Narrative, Prelude, and others. She is the recipient of a Norman Mailer Award in Nonfiction.

Writing on Public Books

Reviews

The Best of the Best? An Appraisal of the 2015 National Book Award Finalists in Poetry

This evening, literary insiders will gather for the National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner, which will also be broadcast live on the National Book Foundation website for the viewing pleasure of those not invited. Within the small, fractious group of people enmeshed in contemporary literature, any claim of excellence is bound to provoke loud […]