Elaine Magarrell, teacher, artist, and writer, is the author of two books of poetry: On Hogback Mountain (1985, winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Prize), and Blameless Lives (1991, winner of the Word Works Prize). A selection of her poems appeared, most recently, along with poems by Cicely Angleton and Reed Whittemore in Inventory (2008, Barclay Bryan Press). Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals. Born in Iowa, she is a long-time resident of Washington, DC.
