Eleanor Boudreau is a poet who has worked as a dry-cleaner and as a radio reporter. Her poems have appeared in
American Poetry Review,
Tin House,
Barrow Street,
Waxwing,
Willow Springs,
FIELD,
Copper Nickel, and other journals. Currently, she is finishing her PhD and teaching creative writing at Florida State University.
Boudreau's first book,
Earnest, Earnest? (2020), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.
At Electric Lit she tagged
ten books about doomed love, including:
The House of Deep Water by Jeni McFarland
After the dissolution of her marriage and the loss of her job, Elizabeth DeWitt is forced to move back to River Bend, Michigan, the small town where she grew up, but—because of the color of her skin—never quite felt she belonged. Beth’s return is an unhappy one, and it leads her to reunite with her first doomed love, a man who dated her and her best friend simultaneously, and, ultimately, married her friend. The novel confronts not just the consequences of being the other woman, but also the consequences of being labeled other in the place you call home—it’s an exploration of how trauma and loneliness, like everything else in America, are not equally distributed.
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--Marshal Zeringue
Eleanor Boudreau is a poet who has worked as a dry-cleaner and as a radio reporter. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Tin House, Barrow Street, Waxwing, Willow Springs, FIELD, Copper Nickel, and other journals. Currently, she is finishing her PhD and teaching creative writing at Florida State University.
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