Elisa Gabbert
Elisa Gabbert | |
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| Born | 1979 (age 46–47) Texas, United States |
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| Occupations | Poet and essayist |
| Writing career | |
| Language | English |
| Period | 2008–present |
| Notable work | The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays (2020) |
| Notable awards | 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction |
| Website | www |
Elisa Gabbert (born 1979) is an American poet, essayist, and critic. She is the author of seven collections, most recently Any Person Is the Only Self (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), and writes the “On Poetry” column for The New York Times.
Her writing has appeared in Poetry, Harper's, The Paris Review, The Believer, the New York Review of Books, A Public Space, and The Yale Review. In 2026, Gabbert received a Guggenheim Fellowship.