Her poems appear in numerous journals and anthologies. Her new collection was a finalist for the 2022 Cider Press Editors’ Book Prize, the 2023 Marsh Hawk Press Prize, the 2023 Wandering Aengus Book Award, the 2024 Tenth Gate Prize, and a quarter finalist for the 2023 Able Muse Press Prize. Several of her poems are Pushcart Prize nominees.For many years, she was a public interest attorney, and she currently teaches mindfulness. Elizabeth is also a classical guitarist and visual artist.
Elizabeth’s two poetry collections areThe Fifth Generation (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2016) and Proof (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2014), a finalist for the University of Wisconsin Press’s Brittingham and Pollak prizes. She translated into French Pythagoras in Love/Pythagore Amoureux by Lee Slonimsky (Folded Word Press, 2015), a bilingual sonnet collection. Her poems appear in, among others, 32 Poems, Baltimore Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Cider Press Review, Colorado Review, and Rattle, American Religion (IU Press) and in numerous anthologies, including including Tree Lines: Twenty-First Century American Poems, Grayson Books (April 2, 2022) (Barber J., J. Greenbaum, F. Marchant, eds.) and The Elemental Series, Humans and Nature Press (2024) (Van Horn, Gavin, Jennings, B., Brown, N., and Santos Perez, C., eds.), She is the author of three chapbooks, including Autumn in a Solitary Time, a collaboration, with photographs of the Hudson Valley taken by Michael Craig Palmer during the pandemic (Audience Askew Press, 2013). Her new collection was a finalist for seven poetry prizes, and her new chapbook was a finalist for two. A public interest attorney for many years, and a French teacher, before that, Elizabeth is the grandmother of four, and lives with her husband in New York City.
A classical guitarist, Elizabeth performs weekly for patients and families, and staff in a New York hospital. She is in the process of releasing her music on Spotify.
A member of the New York Bar, she runs Mindful Solutions LLC., and has taught mindfulness for many years. She is also a collage artist.
Elizabeth is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Swarthmore College.
About
Elizabeth J. Coleman is the editor of Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), an international ecopoetry anthology with a forward from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and an activist guide from the Union of Concerned Scientists. She is the author of two poetry collections from Spuyten Duyvil Press (one, Proof, a University of Wisconsin Press prize finalist), and of three chapbooks.
“As humans, we grapple with how precious our lives are to us in what appears a vast, indifferent universe. It is finally we who create meaning: in the connections among us, as members of families and communities, small and large, and in our care for the planet in our brief time”
