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Dina Elenbogen, an award-winning poet and prose writer, is author of the poetry collection, Apples of the Earth (Spuyten Duyvil,NY 2006) and the memoir,Drawn from Water: An American Poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story (BKMK Press, University of Missouri March, 2015.)  Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary magazines including, City of the Big Shoulders (University of Iowa, press, 2012),Beyond Lament (Northwestern University Press),Where We Find Ourselves (SUNYPress), Nice jewish Girls:

Growing Up In America(Penguin/Plume), December Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Rhino, Paterson Literary Review, The Times of Israel, Tikkun, Sheridan Road Magazine, Bellevue Literary Magazine and New City Chicago. 

      She has received fellowships in creative nonfiction from the Illinois Arts council and the Ragdale Foundation.  
     Dina has an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writer's Workshop and teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago Graham School where she received the 2012 excellence in teaching award.  
Dina lives in Evanston Illinois with her husband Steve Siegel and their children Sarina and Ilan.

 

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