Elisa Gonzalez is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her debut poetry collection, Grand Tour, was named one of the best books of 2023 by The New Yorker. A former Fulbright scholar, she has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a Whiting Award, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Levis Reading Prize, and was a finalist for the 2025 Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. A novel and nonfiction book are also forthcoming.
Elisa Gonzalez
Disciplines:
Literature – poetry
Disciplines:
Literature – poetry
Based in Brooklyn, NY
Residencies: 2026
Studios
Veltin
Elisa Gonzalez worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at…