Elaine Sexton

Elaine Sexton is the author of Site Specific: New & Selected Poems (Grid Books, 2025); Prospect/Refuge (Sheep Meadow Press, 2015); Causeway (New Issues Press, 2008); and Sleuth (New Issues Press, 2003). 

Sexton formerly served as senior editor at ARTnews and as visual arts editor for Tupelo Quarterly. She is currently the editor and publisher of the micro-press, Em Dash Books. Sexton teaches text and image and poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has been a guest faculty member at both New York University and in the graduate writing program at City College (CUNY). She lives in New York City.