Ellen Hinsey

Ellen Hinsey was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and has lived in Europe for the last two decades. She earned a BFA from Tufts University and a graduate degree from Université de Paris VII. Hinsey’s books of poetry include Cities of Memory(1996), winner of the Yale University Series Award, The White Fire of Time (2002), and The Illegal Age (2018). In her book of essays Mastering the Past (2017) she wrote about the rise of illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe. She has edited and translated The Junction: Selected Poems of Tomas Venclova (2008). She lives and teaches in Germany.