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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. icon

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

By Elisa Gonzalez

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 ...

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