Elise Partridge

Poet and editor Elise Partridge was educated at Harvard University, Boston University, Cambridge University, and the University of British Columbia. She is the author of the poetry collections Fielder’s Choice (2002) and Chameleon Hours (2008), which won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award. Her poems have also been featured on Garrison Keillor’s NPR program The Writer’s Almanac. Partridge’s poems, in the words of critic Stephen Burt, “pursue a careful thinker’s yearning for abandon.” As Burt observed, “Attentive to fact, to what she sees and knows, Partridge nonetheless makes space for what is wild, outside and within us—.” Partridge has served as poet-in-residence for Arc magazine and was a dual citizen of the United States and Canada.  Her husband, Stephen Partridge, is a professor of medieval literature at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Source