Elton Glaser

Elton Glaser was born in New Orleans in 1945. He earned a BA and MA in English from the University of New Orleans, as well as an MFA from the University of California, Irvine.

Glaser is the author of eight poetry collections, including The Law of Falling Bodies (University of Arkansas Press, 2013), winner of the 2013 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize; Translations from the Flesh (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013); and Here and Hereafter (University of Arkansas Press, 2005), winner of the Arkansas Poetry Award. With William Greenway, he coedited the anthology I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio (University of Akron Press, 2002).

Glaser’s other honors include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, seven fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the 1996 Ohioana Poetry Award.

Glaser is a distinguished professor emeritus of English at the University of Akron, as well as the former director of the University of Akron Press and former editor of the Akron Series in Poetry. He lives in Ohio.