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Eleanor Boudreau is a poet who has worked as a dry-cleaner and as a radio reporter. Her first book, Earnest, Earnest? (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), won the 2019 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Lit Hub, American Poetry Review, Tin House, Barrow Street, Waxwing, Copper Nickel, Electric Literature, Great Writers Inspire, and other venues.
Boudreau holds a B.A. in English from Harvard and a M.S. in Broadcast Journalism from Columbia. She spent about four years working for the NPR member-station in Memphis, WKNO-FM, and won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for her radio reporting. She then returned to school and earned a M.F.A. from the University of Houston and a Ph.D. from Florida State University, both in Creative Writing (Poetry). Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of West Alabama.