Eloise Klein Healy

ELOISE KLEIN HEALY is the author of BUILDING SOME CHANGES(Beyond Baroque Foundation NewBook Award), A PACKET BEATING LIKE A HEART (rara avis), ORDINARY WISDOM (Paradise Press/reissued by Red Hen Press), WOMEN'S STUDIES CHRONICLES (The Inevitable Press Chapbook Series), ARTEMIS IN ECHO PARK (Firebrand Books), PASSING (Red Hen Press) and THE ISLANDS PROJECT: POEMS FOR SAPPHO (Red Hen Press). She is also the featured artist on three spoken word recordings.

Healy's work is frequently anthologized in collections such as Another City: Writing From Los Angeles; California Poetry: From The Gold Rush To The Present; Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals; Grand Passion: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond; The Geography Of Home: California’s Poetry of Place; and The World In Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave. She has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony and Dorland Arts Colony and fellowships from The California Arts Council, California State University Northridge, and a COLA Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles.

Healy was the Founding Chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. She directed the Women’s Studies Program at California State University Northridge and taught in the Feminist Studio Workshop at The Woman’s Building in Los Angeles.

Healy was co-founder of ECO-ARTS, an eco-tourism/arts venture and is founding editor of ARKTOI BOOKS, an imprint of Red Hen Press. She received the Horace Mann Award from Antioch University Los Angeles where she is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Emerita.