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Elena Rivera was born in Mexico City and spent her childhood in Paris, France. She is the author of Remembrance of Things Plastic (LRL-e Editions, 2010), Mistakes, Accidents and the Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006), and translator of Secret of Breath (Burning Deck Press, 2008) poems by Isabelle Baladine Howald. She won the 2010 Robert Fagles prize for her translation of The Rest of the Voyage by Bernard NoA"l, which will be published by Graywolf Press in November 2011. She was also awarded a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation, and a 2009 Fundacion Valparaiso Poetry Residency in Mojacar, Spain.

• The Perforated Map I Ars Poetica Disturbances in the Ocean of Air The Colors Project I The Colors Project II Crossed Out The Perforated Map II Suggestions at Every Turn The Colors Project III The Colors Project IV The Perforated Map III In the Frame of the Door Poem with a Line Drawn Across the Body When The Shadow Filled Window Opens The Perforated Map IV We Will Be Served Mistakes, Accidents, and a Want of Liberty The Colors Project V The Perforated Map Notes