Elizabeth Arnold is the author of four collections of poems and is a professor in the MFA program.
While studying at the University of Chicago for her PhD, Arnold researched poet Mina Loy for her dissertation and discovered Insel, Loy’s lost novel. Arnold edited Insel, and Black Sparrow Press published the work in the early nineties.
Arnold is also the author of four collections of poetry, The Reef, Civilization, Effacement, and Life, and her poems and essays appear in Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, Literary Imagination, and The Nation. In addition to serving on the MFA faculty at the University of Maryland, Arnold also served on the faculty at the Warren Wilson MFA program.
Arnold was the named Pushcart Prize Nominee in Poetry twice, and her other recognitions include an Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, residencies at Bellagio and Yaddo, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College, and a Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. Arnold’s passion for poetry and teaching has been of utmost value to the Department, and she has been an essential influence on undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty alike.
