Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is a poet who comes to Kenyon as a 2012-2014 Kenyon Review Fellow. Her first book, Chord Box, is forthcoming from University of Arkansas Press as a finalist for the Miller Williams Prize. She has been recognized as the youngest poet published in their poetry series.

Before Kenyon, Rogers was a postgraduate Lecturer of English at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, where she taught courses in creative and expository writing, as well as queer, Southern, and 21st-century literature. She also spent several years as an Oberlin Shansi Fellow, teaching English and dance at Shanxi Agricultural University in Taigu, China.

She is originally from Greensboro, North Carolina, and has trained as both a dancer and a musician.

Education

MFA, Cornell University, 2011
B.A., Oberlin College, 2007

Selected Publications

BOOK:

Chord Box, University of Arkansas Press, 2013. (Finalist for the Miller Williams Prize.

JOURNALS:

Kenyon Review Online: "Wanted" and "Margin, Error" (forthcoming, Fall 2012)
POOL: "A Redshift," "Smokehouse Where the Heart Should Be," and "A Road in the Sky" (Summer 2012).
Crazyhorse: "Two Poems" (Spring 2012).
FIELD: "In Mid-Autumn," and "Length," Fall 2011.
Crab Orchard Review: "I-77 North: 2009," and "Vice," Fall 2011.
Seneca Review: "Elizabeth I, Richmond," Summer 2011.
Agni Online: "The Luthier," and "Echo," December 2010.
Comstock Review: "On Green," 32.2, Fall 2009/Winter 2010.
Asheville Poetry Review: 'Fall," Fall 2009.
StorySouth: "A Map of Shanxi," Fall 2009.
Country Dog Review: "Tongues," Fall/Winter 2009-2010.
Poetry Daily: "New Garden," September 8th, 2007.
Chautauqua Literary Journal: "New Garden," Summer 2007.