ARIELLE GREENBERG

Arielle Greenberg Bywater is the Assistant Director to the Poetry Programs at Columbia College in Chicago. She is the author of two collections of poetry, My Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005) and Given (Verse, 2002), and editor, along with Rachel Zucker, of an anthology of essays, Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts & Affections. She is also an editor of a college composition reader, (University of Iowa Press, 2008), and Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (Longman, 2006), editor at the literary magazines Court Green and Black Clock and her own poems have appeared in journals including the American Poetry Review and the Denver Quarterly and were featured in the 2004 and 2005 volumes of Best American Poetry. She is the recipient of a Saltonstall Artist's Grant and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Her areas of scholarly and teaching interest include women's poetry, 20th century poetry, innovative poetics, cinema and cultural studies.

Her books include:

Fa(r)ther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials, (New Michigan), 2003
Greenberg-Bywater, Arielle, Given, (Verse), 2002
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Greenberg-Bywater, Arielle, My Kafka Century, (Action Books), 2003
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