About Elisa Gabbert

Elisa Gabbert is the author of seven collections of poetry, essays, and criticism, most recently Any Person Is the Only Self (FSG, 2024), which was a finalist for the PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and one of the Washington Post’s 50 notable works of nonfiction for 2024. Her other books include The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays, Normal Distance, The Word Pretty, and The Self Unstable. She writes the On Poetry column for the New York Times, and her work has appeared widely in publications including Harper’s, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, The Believer, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Providence.

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